Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran (born March 10 1949) is an American businesswoman investor, speaker, consultant, syndicated columnist, television host, and author. The Corcoran Group is a New York City-based real estate brokerage. In 2001, it was transferred to NRT at $66 million. Corcoran quit the firm shortly thereafter. Corcoran is one of ABC’s original Shark Tank investors. As of now she has appeared in every 12 seasons of Shark Tank. In February of 2020, she had completed 53 deals. The largest of these was a $350,000 investment to Coverplay at 40%. Corcoran was second of a family of 10 children, and was raised in Edgewater. Florence Corcoran's mom, was a housewife. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father through Corcoran's early years. Sometimes, the family relied upon deliveries of free food from a local grocer. Corcoran recalls her father as one who often consumed too much alcohol and was rude to her mother and sneer, especially after he'd consumed alcohol. Corcoran was a struggle in school, and was later told that she had dyslexia. Corcoran was a student at an Catholic primary school within her neighborhood and started the high school year in St. Cecilia High School, Englewood. Corcoran was a failure in numerous classes in her freshman year, moved to Leonia High School. There she received a grade of D.