How Many Times Have All 5 Sharks Gone In on a Deal?

Getting one Shark interested in a business is already a pretty good place to be. But what happens when another Shark wants it too, and then another one? There have actually been pitches where nobody sitting in the Tank wanted to be left out. All five Sharks ended up putting an offer together for the same business.

But it almost never happens. There have been 1,513 pitches through Season 17 in our Shark Tank statistics dataset, and 936 of those pitches ended with a deal. Only six companies got every Shark sitting on the panel to invest together.

Classroom Jams was the first one. And that happened so long ago that Mark Cuban wasn’t even one of the Shark Tank investors sitting there. Kevin Harrington was. Then there was BuggyBeds, followed by Breathometer, xCraft, Cup Board Pro and finally EyeWris in Season 14.

The amount of money was very different from one five-Shark deal to another. xCraft came in asking for $500,000, and somehow that turned into a $1.5 million agreement with all five Sharks. Cup Board Pro also got everybody involved, but the complete deal there was only $100,000.

But the $1.5 million xCraft deal stopped after the show. All five Sharks had agreed to invest, but the deal never closed. Cup Board Pro went another way. There is much stronger evidence that the five Sharks actually became investors after making their deal in the Tank.

So, six businesses have managed to get an accepted deal with every Shark sitting there. That is what happened on the show. After the entrepreneurs went home, some of those deals still went ahead and others did not.

Company	Season	Original Ask	Accepted Five-Shark Deal
Classroom Jams	1	$250,000 for 10%	$250,000 for the business + 5% royalty
BuggyBeds	4	$125,000 for 7%	$250,000 for 25%
Breathometer	5	$250,000 for 10%	$1 million for 30%
xCraft	7	$500,000 for 20%	$1.5 million for 25%
Cup Board Pro	10	$100,000 for 10%	$100,000 for 20%
EyeWris	14	$25,000 for 5%	$125,000 for 20%

Classroom Jams Was the First All-Shark Deal

Mark Furigay was looking for $250,000 when he walked into Shark Tank with Classroom Jams. In return, he was offering 10% of the business. Mark was a teacher, and Classroom Jams came from that world. The idea was to teach school subjects through music. Students could listen to the songs and use them to remember what they were learning.

Then all five Sharks wanted to do something with the business. Kevin Harrington, Kevin O’Leary, Barbara Corcoran, Daymond John and Robert Herjavec were the five sitting there in Season 1. They came together with $250,000, although the deal was no longer for the 10% Mark had originally offered. The Sharks would get the business, and Mark would keep a 5% royalty.

Kevin O’Leary did stay involved with Classroom Jams for a while. He took Mark to Houghton Mifflin, and the company was given an opportunity for a market test. What happened with the other four Sharks is not as clear. There isn’t enough public information showing that the $250,000 investment from all five Sharks actually went through.

BuggyBeds Brought All Five Together in Season 4

Bed bugs can be there before you even know there is a problem. Maria Curcio and Veronica Periongo had BuggyBeds, a product made to detect them early. The two came into Shark Tank asking for $125,000 for 7% of the company. And the Sharks had quite a bit of interest in what they were doing.

At one point, Maria and Veronica were sent out of the Tank while the Sharks talked among themselves. When they came back, Mark Cuban, Kevin O’Leary, Barbara Corcoran, Daymond John and Robert Herjavec were all in the same deal. The offer was $250,000 for 25%. Maria and Veronica took it.

BuggyBeds kept going with the Sharks after the show too. Years later, in 2021, Rock Mountain Capital bought a majority stake in the company. That deal also took the original Sharks out of their ownership positions. So, unlike some of the other five-Shark agreements, BuggyBeds has much stronger evidence that the Sharks really did become investors.

Breathometer Got a $1 Million Five-Shark Deal

Charles Michael Yim only came in asking for $250,000 for 10% of Breathometer. The product was a breathalyzer that worked with a smartphone, and the Sharks kept getting more interested as the pitch went along. By the end of it, there was no longer just one Shark trying to get into the business. All five were there.

And the amount had gone all the way up to $1 million for 30%. Mark Cuban had half of the $1 million deal. He was putting in $500,000 for 15%, while Lori Greiner, Kevin O’Leary, Daymond John and Robert Herjavec were sharing the other $500,000. Charles accepted the deal.

But Breathometer did not keep that same group of five Sharks after the show. Mark became the main investor in the company. And years later, Breathometer ran into a different problem. The FTC challenged the accuracy claims for its breathalyzer products, and the company had to notify customers and offer refunds.

xCraft Had the Biggest All-Five-Shark Deal

JD Claridge and Charles Manning came into Shark Tank looking for $500,000 for 20% of xCraft. They were working with drones, and the Sharks wanted a piece of the company. But $500,000 was not where the money stopped. The offer eventually reached $1.5 million for 25%.

And all five Sharks were part of that $1.5 million. Mark Cuban, Kevin O’Leary, Lori Greiner, Daymond John and Robert Herjavec were each putting up $300,000. Each Shark would get 5% of xCraft. JD and Charles accepted the deal.

The $1.5 million deal did not make it past Shark Tank though. Once filming was over, the agreement with the five Sharks fell through. xCraft still continued without them. JD and Charles later raised money for the company from other investors.

Cup Board Pro Had a Different Fifth Shark

Cup Board Pro had been Keith Young’s idea. He was a firefighter and a chef, and he had created a cutting board with a tray built into it. But Keith died from cancer before the Shark Tank pitch. His children, Kaley, Christian and Keira, were the ones who brought his product into the Tank.

They were asking for $100,000 for 10% of Cup Board Pro. And this became one of those deals where nobody wanted to sit out. Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Kevin O’Leary and Daymond John were joined by guest Shark Matt Higgins. The five offered $100,000 for 20%, with each Shark taking 4%.

The five Sharks did become investors in Cup Board Pro. Williams Sonoma later announced that it was working with the Young family on the product and named all five Sharks as investors. There was another part to their investment too. The Sharks agreed that their proceeds would go to charities connected to the FDNY.

EyeWris Is the Most Recent Five-Shark Deal

EyeWris was made for people who needed reading glasses but did not always have them around when they needed them. The glasses could be worn on the wrist, which is where Mark and Kenzo Singer got the name. They brought the business into Season 14 and asked for $25,000 for 5%. It was the smallest ask among these six five-Shark deals.

The Sharks came back with much more than the $25,000 Mark and Kenzo had asked for. Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran, Kevin O’Leary, Lori Greiner and Daymond John offered $125,000 for 25%. Kenzo wanted to give up less of the company and countered with 20%. The five Sharks agreed.

EyeWris continued after Shark Tank. But that does not tell us whether the $125,000 deal went through. There isn’t enough public information showing that all five Sharks actually made the investment. So, EyeWris is the latest accepted five-Shark deal through Season 17, while what happened to that deal after filming is still unclear.

Did All Six Five-Shark Deals Actually Close?

The Sharks stayed with BuggyBeds after Shark Tank. And they were still there years later when Rock Mountain Capital bought a majority stake in the company. Cup Board Pro had all five Sharks involved after the show too. Williams Sonoma later named all five as investors when it announced its partnership with the business.

The five Sharks did not end up investing in xCraft. Their $1.5 million deal stopped after Shark Tank. Breathometer was a little different because Mark Cuban did stay with the company. But the other four Sharks did not, so the five-Shark deal we saw in the Tank was no longer the same.

Classroom Jams and EyeWris are harder to say for sure. Kevin O’Leary did continue helping Mark Furigay with Classroom Jams, but there isn’t enough information showing that all five Sharks put in the $250,000. We don’t have that confirmation for the $125,000 EyeWris deal either. All six got an accepted deal from five Sharks, but what happened with those deals afterward was different.

Not Every Pitch Wanted by All Five Sharks Counts

TheMagic5 had all five Sharks interested in the business. But the founders still had to decide which Shark they actually wanted to make a deal with. They went with Robert Herjavec. Mark Cuban later joined Robert, so the deal ended up having two Sharks instead of all five.

UniKey Technologies also got interest from everybody sitting there. When it came time to make the deal though, Phil Dumas went with Mark Cuban and Kevin O’Leary. And Bala Bangles ended up with Mark and guest Shark Maria Sharapova. The other Sharks may have wanted the company, but they were not part of the agreement that was accepted.

All five Sharks wanting the business is one thing. Getting all five into the deal is another. The entrepreneur has to actually accept a deal with all five Sharks for it to count here.

Conclusion

It took until Season 14 for Shark Tank to get its sixth deal with all five Sharks. EyeWris joined Classroom Jams, BuggyBeds, Breathometer, xCraft and Cup Board Pro. And through Season 17, nobody else has joined them. There have been plenty of pitches where several Sharks wanted the same business, but getting everybody into one accepted deal is still unusual.

The six deals also ended up being very different once the entrepreneurs left the Tank. But the six deals did not all stay together after Shark Tank. Some of the five-Shark deals went ahead after the show, and others stopped there. xCraft never got the $1.5 million the Sharks had agreed to invest. A few of the other deals changed after filming too. So, six companies got a deal with all five Sharks in the Tank, but all five did not necessarily become investors afterward.