Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran (born March 10, 1949) is an American businesswoman, investor, speaker, consultant and syndicated columnist. She is also an author, and television personality. The Corcoran Group was a New York City real estate brokerage she established. NRT purchased it for $66 million in 2001. Corcoran later left the business. Corcoran was among the original Shark Tank investors. She has appeared on every season of ABC's Shark Tank. In February of 2020 Corcoran had signed 53 deals, with the largest being a $350,000 investment that was able to cover 40 percent of Coverplay. Corcoran was second of a family of 10 children, and was raised in Edgewater. Florence Corcoran was Florence's mother and also a housekeeper. Her father, Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was a bouncing from job to job throughout Corcoran's childhood. Her family frequently relied on free food deliveries from a local grocer. Corcoran remembers her father as one who often consumed too much alcohol and did her mother a disservice and condescension, particularly when he'd been drinking. Corcoran struggled in school, and eventually discovered that she had dyslexia. She attended a local Catholic elementary school, and then began high school at St. Cecilia High School in Englewood. After failing several courses in her first year, Corcoran transferred to Leonia High School, where she graduated as a D student.