Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran is an American businesswoman from America. She founded The Corcoran Group, a real estate brokerage located in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001 and shortly after, she left the company. Corcoran is one of ABC's first Shark investors, has been a part of each episode of Shark Tank. Corcoran had signed 53 contracts as of February of 2020. The biggest deal she signed was her $350,000 investment in Coverplay for 40%. Corcoran was born in Edgewater (New Jersey) as the second of ten children in an Irish-Catholic working class family. Florence Corcoran was Florence's mother and was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father. He was a mover between jobs and another throughout Corcoran's early years. Her family sometimes relied on the free delivery of food from a local grocery store. Corcoran recalls her father being a drunkard who sometimes treated her mother with disrespect and disrespect, especially when he had been drinking. Corcoran was struggling in school, and she was later told that she was dyslexic. She went to a local Catholic elementary school before beginning high school in St. Cecilia High School in Englewood. Corcoran was proficient in several courses her first year. She was transferred to Leonia High School and graduated with a D.