hark 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.
“Getting a million dollar investment from Mark Cuban on Shark Tank validated [the brand] to anybody who had any questions about what we were doing,” said Justin Fenchel, cofounder of Beatbox boxed cocktails, another Shark Tank winner. “It solidified us as entrepreneurs, it solidified us as a viable business.”