Fort Shark Tank Update

Fort Shark Tank Pitch

Connor Lewis appeared on Shark Tank Season 13, Episode 18, which aired on April 1, 2022, with storeable, stackable, wipeable, modular system to build the ulimate pillow fort.

Fort is listed in the Media Entertainment category. In plain terms, the business is described as storeable, stackable, wipeable, modular system to build the ulimate pillow fort.

Fort asked the Sharks for $500,000 for 10%, implying a valuation of about $5 million.

The source data lists no completed on-air deal for Fort.

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

Fort After Shark Tank

Fort left Shark Tank without a deal. The company had already raised more than $3 million on Kickstarter, but the post-show story became dominated by fulfillment problems, customer complaints, and product-safety issues. (Fort Shark Tank Update

By October 2023, many Kickstarter backers still had not received products, the website was sold out, and social media had gone quiet. Shark Tank Blog reports that the company shut down around March 2023. (Fort Shark Tank Update

The Consumer Product Safety Commission later recalled The FORT children's play tents because magnets could dislodge and create choking or laceration hazards; CPSC also states the firm is no longer in business and no remedy is available. (CPSC The FORT recall

Sources

Sources used for this page: Shark Tank API pitches