More than 600 companies have gotten investments from ABC’s Shark Tank judges in the past 13 years. These are some of the most successful.
Shark Tank’s celebrity investors have seen—and thrown their backing behind—everything from rentable Santa Claus performers and light-up beard ornaments to mini chainsaw turkey carvers and mushroom jerky. While many don’t go onto become household names beyond their 15 minutes of TV fame, there are some companies that managed to parlay their deals on the show into huge success. Forbes analyzed roughly 380 companies that left the tank with a deal in the past 6 years. We also poured through earlier Forbes reporting of another 319