Which Shark Tank investor founded The Corcoran Group?

Barbara Corcoran founded The Corcoran Group.

Corcoran co-founded the New York City real-estate company in 1971 with her then-boyfriend, taking a small loan to start the business. The company became a prominent real-estate brokerage and was later sold to NRT, now part of Realogy, in 2001.

Corcoran became a Shark Tank investor and is known for evaluating businesses through the lenses of branding, salesmanship, market positioning, and founder confidence. Her background differs from Sharks whose fortunes came primarily from technology, apparel, or consumer products.

The company name is sometimes mistaken for a real-estate school or a personal investment fund. The Corcoran Group was specifically the brokerage Corcoran built in New York. Corcoran later expanded her public profile through television, writing, and speaking.