Solemates Heel Protector Update | Shark Tank Season 8
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Shark Tank Solemates Update
- Entrepreneur: Monica Ferguson and Becca Brown
- Business: Heel protectors for women’s high heels
- Ask: $500,000 for 10% equity
- Result: $500,000 for 20% equity
- Shark: Robert Herjavec
Solemates presentation aired on
The former Goldman Sachs employees pitched their product by telling the mostly male sharks at the time about the special relationship between women and their footwear. The two then went on to explain how their product prevented high heels from getting stuck on small surfaces like grass and cracks before ending the presentation by telling the sharks how their product can help “liberate women to walk across any surface, looking and feeling their absolute best.”
Following their presentation, all five sharks save for Mark Cuban gave Solemates a try, after which the sharks took turns questioning the duo about how well Solemates had performed since its foundation. At the time, Solemates were sold in almost 3,000 retail stores and online for $10. In 2015, Solesmates reached $1.1 million in sales with their projects for 2016 somewhere around $1.1 to $1.3 million.
However, as the two would go on to explain, despite the strong sales figures, Solesmates was barely breaking even. This unfortunate news quickly scared away all but two of the five sharks: Kevin O’Leary and Robert Herjavec. Despite Solemates effectively operating at a loss, the two would go on to make an offer. For Kevin, he structured the deal so that he’d get 10% equity for $100,000 with $400,000 acting as a loan.
Meanwhile, Robert offered the Solemates founders exactly just how much they came in to ask for, $500,000, but for more than double the equity at 25%. After Robert told Monica and Becca that they’d be crazy to devaluate Solemates by taking on Kevin’s deal, the two countered and asked Robert if he was willing to lower his equity ask to 20% instead so that the two could still remain majority owners, to which Robert agreed and they ended up shaking on the deal in front of a national television audience.
Unfortunately, in doing our research for the Solemates update, we found out that Solemates
These days, you’ll find Solemates sold in more than 3,000 stores all over the world, as well as on Amazon and on the Solemates website.
Solemates has also expanded its product line since appearing on
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