Credit: House Digest Highlights The episodes of Shark Tank Season 12 were recorded during the pandemic. This season saw many guest Sharks, including Alex Rodriguez. While pitches like Hug Sleep invited offers from all the investors, others like Brumachen were rejected for overvaluation. Every year, the creators of Shark Tank tease audiences with a promo […]

Judy Abrahams invented The Super Potty Trainer because her daughter wanted to learn to go potty but was afraid of falling in. Traditional potty training toilet seats are cumbersome and those mini training pottys aren’t much more than a bucket you do your business in. They’re a pain to clean, too. There had to be […]

Debbie Wei Mullin created Copper Cow Coffee so she could enjoy her favorite drink: Vietnamese Coffee. Debbie’s grandmother came to the USA in 1975, around the end of the Viet Nam War. Debbie grew up enjoying traditional Vietnamese food and drinks; her favorite was/is Vietnamese Coffee. This coffee uses Robusta beans grown in Vietnam. Robusta […]

The timing of bad weather for LitHandlers creator Destiny Padgett couldn’t be worse. She’s on the season 12 finale of Shark Tank and it’s raining in her hometown of Buna, Texas. It’s raining so hard, her warehouse flooded! It looks like no inventory was damaged, but they still had a lot of water to clean […]

When Shark Tank producers asked if Don Lessem would like DinoDon, his life sized dinosaur business, to appear on Shark Tank, he had one condition. That condition was his wife, Valerie Jones, had to appear with him. Jones is a non profit fundraising professional who’s used to asking for big bucks. She also speak the […]

Susana Saeliu created the Pluto Pillow because she didn’t have a pillow she liked. She, along with business partner Kevin Li, want to disrupt the pillow industry in the same way companies like Purple have disrupted the mattress industry. The Pluto Pillow is a pillow that uses an algorithm to customize a pillow design to […]

Fling Golf inventor Alex Van Allen and his childhood friends were an imaginative bunch. They’d combine sports to make a new game. That’s how Fling Golf came to be – they combined lacrosse with golf and he’s convinced he’s going to change golf forever. What it is is a golf “club” that lets you fling […]

Jamie Montz invented The Original Stretch Lace to make tying her kids’ shoes easier, When you have three little ones, it can be a pain in the neck to keep getting on your knees and tying them. They are also popular with the elderly and people with special needs because they turn any shoe or […]

If you ever wanted to grill while you’re in the water, Float ‘n’ Grill is for you. The product, featured in Shark Tank episode 1221, is the brainchild of Mikey Bashawaty and Jeremy Quillico, long time friends who enjoy hanging out on the sandbars of nearby Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie in the summertime. […]

Sneaker Erasers creators Chris Pavlica and Kevin Consolo used to brainstorm about million dollar ideas while roommates at Ohio University. It was almost ten years later that idea came to be. Pavlica was a film maker in LA and Consolo was doing sales for a brewery in North Carolina. One fateful day, Pavlica was set […]

Thomas Fields, creator of Grind Basketball, got his company name from what he does: Grind. In middle school, he got up at 5 am to go practice with the high school team. In ninth grade, he made varsity and had a promising future in the sport. Unfortunately, a series of injuries ended his dream of […]

Karen Nation eats healthy, that’s why she created her no bake Creation Nation Protein Bar Mix. She’s a Sports nutritionist who had food allergies  as a child. She was always experimenting in the kitchen and in 2014, she decided to make her protein bar and energy bite mixes for the world to enjoy. She felt […]

Aaron Walls and Brett Vegas hope to raise a toast to a new partnership for The Beer Mkr, their simple home beer brewing kit. If you’ve ever looked into brewing beer, it can be a very complicated undertaking. These guys aim to make it easy. Imagine if you will a service that sends you all […]

X Torch creators Keidy and Gene Palusky are very giving people. They met as missionaries in 2001 and they run their business more like missionaries than business people. They sank $300,000 into the business and they’ve given more products away than they sold! That doesn’t bother Gene who claims he has all the money he’ll […]

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in March, 2020, Jiggy Jigsaw Puzzles saw a 550% increase in sales. For founder Kaylin Marcotte it was both a blessing and a curse. She had to reorder inventory that would run out in two months. She had to pivot and do it quickly. Kaylin started the business in the […]

Scrubbie inventor Jeff Dakin and his partners Tyler Kessler and Matt Hosey call themselves “the Side Hustle Homies.” Together, they spent almost six years bringing this product to market. Dakin, a contractor by trade, keeps a book of invention ideas. He claims he has over 100 ideas. Hosey says “he’s got too many million dollar […]

Cassandra and India Ayala started The Bumbling Bee Vegan Junk Food and Burger Bar as a food truck in Virginia Beach. Cassandra was a realtor for many years and when the real estate bubble burst, she pivoted. While pivoting, she brought her three daughters, India, Olivia and Lexie, into the business with her. Since Olivia […]

Jill Visit, creator of The Salad Sling, thought her salad spinner worked just fine. What she didn’t like about it is it takes up too much space and it’s hard to clean’ If you have one, you understand. You have to rearrange your fridge to store greens in the spinner and there are always little […]

Justin Wang created the Larq Self Cleaning Water Bottle because he finds the use of plastic water bottles a huge pollution problem. Single use plastics are choking the earth. The problem with reusable water bottles is they harbor bacteria and germs. With Larq, the bottle not only cleans itself, it also purifies the water in […]

Gabe and Cindy Trevizo didn’t invent Suds 2 Go because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but it really blew up their sales. They originally created the product – a water bottle with an attached soap dispenser – to clean up with their young kids while participating in outdoor activities. Hand sanitizer can’t remove dirt and grease […]

Michael Sweigart invented the Fur Zapper by accident. He was dabbling in special effects make up as a hobby and he dropped some of the “zombie face foam” on the floor. When he picked it up, it was loaded with pet hair. After seeing how easily it rinsed clean, the wheels started turning. Michael worked […]

Melissa Clayton invented the Matte to solve a problem. The mom of three boys hated putting her hair dryer and makeup on her toilet while getting all gussied up in her small bathroom. She needed more counter space around her bathroom sink but that wasn’t happening. So she created a small – about the size […]

Cheese Chopper inventor Tate Koenig likes his cheese so much, he calls himself “Mr. Cheese.” He eats a lot of cheese, so he found it to be expensive. The best way to save money on cheese is to buy it in big blocks, that way you aren’t paying for a lot of processing and packaging. […]

Ophthalmologist and entrepreneur Dr. Anika Goodwin created OpulenceMD Beauty to protect women’s eyes from harmful glues associated with other commercially available false eyelashes. The lashes available on the market contain cyanoacrylate –  an ingredient in Crazy Glue! This glue tends to rip out your real lashes and causes allergic reactions for many. Dr. Goodwin wanted […]