Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran (born March 10 1949) is an American businesswoman investor and speaker. She is also a consultant, speaker, syndicated columnist, TV personality, author and author. In 2001, she launched The Corcoran Group in New York City. She sold the company to NRT for $66 million. Shortly thereafter, she exited from the business. Corcoran is one of ABC's first Shark investors, has been a part of each episode of Shark Tank. By February 2020, she had closed 53 deals. One of them was a purchase of $350,000 for Coverplay at 40 percent. Corcoran was born in Edgewater, New Jersey, the second child of 10 from a working class Irish Catholic family.  Her mother, Florence, was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father during Corcoran's childhood. In times, her family relied on deliveries of free food from a friendly local grocer. Corcoran remembers her father, a man who sometimes drank too much and behaved towards her mother in a manner that was disrespectful and condescendingly, particularly after he'd consumed a few drinks. Corcoran struggled through her schooling, later learning that she had dyslexia. Corcoran began the high school system at St. Cecilia High School Englewood following her departure from her Catholic elementary school. Corcoran was a failure in many classes during her first year of high school, was transferred to Leonia High School. There, she received a D.