The Dough Bar Shark Tank Update

The Dough Bar Shark Tank Pitch

Ondrea Fernandez and Marquez Fernandez appeared on Shark Tank Season 9, Episode 20, which aired on January 27, 2018, with Protein packed doughnuts.

The Dough Bar is listed in the Food Beverage category. In plain terms, the business is described as Protein packed doughnuts.

The Dough Bar asked the Sharks for $300,000 for 15%, implying a valuation of about $2 million.

On the show, The Dough Bar made a listed deal with Barbara Corcoran for $300,000 for 20%.

If treated as straight equity, the listed deal works out to about $1.5 million implied valuation, down from the original $2 million implied valuation.

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

The Dough Bar After Shark Tank

The Dough Bar accepted Barbara Corcoran’s on-air deal for $300,000 for 20% equity. (The Dough Bar Shark Tank Blog update

The Shark Tank bump was real: follow-up reporting says the company was nearing $2 million in online sales within nine months of the episode airing. (Food Republic The Dough Bar update

The founders tried to scale beyond online protein doughnuts into physical bakery locations and a broader product line. (The Dough Bar Shark Tank Blog update

The company later faced debt, bankruptcy and family health pressures, and it has remained inactive since its 2022 closure. (The Dough Bar Shark Tank Tales update

Sources

Sources used for this page: Shark Tank API pitches