Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran, born on March 10, 1949, is an American businesswoman and investor. She is also a speaker as a consultant, columnist syndicated, speaker, author, and TV presenter. In 2001, she founded The Corcoran Group in New York City. The company was sold to the brokerage to NRT for $66 million. In the following months she left the company. Corcoran was one of the original Shark Tank investors. She has appeared in every season of ABC's Shark Tank. She has been involved in 53 deals since February, 2020. The largest was a $350,000 purchase to pay for 40 percent of Coverplay. Corcoran was born in Edgewater (New Jersey) as the second of ten children in an Irish-Catholic working class family. Florence was her mother. She was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father. He moved from one job to the next during Corcoran's youth. The family relied on free food deliveries from a local grocery store. Corcoran recalls her father as a man who sometimes drank too much and did her mother a disservice and contempt, particularly when he was drinking. Corcoran was struggling in school, and she discovered later that she was dyslexic. Corcoran was educated in an Catholic elementary school, and later began high school in Englewood at St. Cecilia High School. After failing several courses in her first year, Corcoran transferred to Leonia High School and graduated as a D student.