BatBnB Shark Tank Update

BatBnB Shark Tank Pitch

Chris Rannefors and Harrison Broadhurst appeared on Shark Tank Season 10, Episode 23, which aired on May 12, 2019, with bat houses designed preserve bat wildlife and promote their use as natural pest control.

BatBnB is listed in the Other category. In plain terms, the business is described as bat houses designed preserve bat wildlife and promote their use as natural pest control.

BatBnB asked the Sharks for $100,000 for 16%, implying a valuation of about $625,000.

On the show, BatBnB made a listed deal with Kevin O'Leary for $100,000 for 33.3%.

If treated as straight equity, the listed deal works out to about $300,300.3 implied valuation, down from the original $625,000 implied valuation.

This pitch is included as context for the more important question: what happened after Shark Tank.

BatBnB After Shark Tank

BatBnB accepted an on-air deal, but later updates say the deal did not close after filming. The founders kept selling premium bat houses anyway, leaning on conservation, mosquito reduction, and better bat-house design rather than Shark backing. (BatBnB Shark Tank update

By July 2024, follow-up notes used in the Season 10 research put annual revenue around $1 million. In summer 2023, the company also introduced Bird BnB, extending the habitat idea beyond bat houses into songbird products. (BatBnB Shark Tank update

The current site is active with a shop, hanging guide, education resources, nonprofit information, and Merlin Tuttle conservation context. That current footprint supports the classification as an active niche home-and-garden/conservation brand. (BatBnB official site

Sources

Sources used for this page: Shark Tank API pitches