Big Bee, Little Bee
Status: active as of 2026-09-09
Also known as: Big Bee Little Bee, Big Bee, Little Bee LLC
Big Bee, Little Bee is an active mother-daughter consumer-products business run by Amy and Marlo Leinbach. Its current Shopify store sells silicone storage, children’s and household products, and says the business remains woman-owned and self-funded. The company received no Shark Tank deal according to the contemporaneous follow-up record; the founders instead continued expanding through their own products and patents, including the later SoftShell line.
Shark Tank appearance
Season 14, episode 5
- Appearance source
- Shark Tank US | Mark Cuban Crushes Big Bee, Little Bee's Entrepreneur's Dream pitch
- Pitch
- A mother-daughter line of reusable family products, including the Marker Parker
- Ask
- $100,000 for 20%
- Deal closed?
- No
Dated timeline
| Date | Event | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-01 | The federal trademark record for BIG BEE, LITTLE BEE gives April 1, 2016 as the claimed first-use-in-commerce date for the brand's goods. | S-BIG-TM |
| 2022-10-21 | Amy and Marlo Leinbach appeared on Season 14 of Shark Tank seeking $100,000 for 20%; secondary follow-up records no deal. | S-BIG-BLOG, S-BIG-VIDEO |
| 2024-04-30 | A federal patent was granted to Big Bee, Little Bee LLC for a food-storage container. | S-BIG-PATENT |
| 2026-09-09 | The current official store is live, ships products, and presents SoftShell and children's collections; the company describes itself as woman-owned and self-funded. | S-BIG-CURRENT, S-BIG-ABOUT |
Legal and entity identity
- Legal entities
- Big Bee, Little Bee LLC
- Aliases
- Big Bee Little Bee, Big Bee, Little Bee LLC
- Successor/acquirer
- None verified
California
Big Bee, Little Bee LLC · unresolved
Limitation: The California business-search portal was identified, but an exact state filing and current standing were not retrieved in this pass; the federal patent record supports the LLC name.
California business search portal · accessed 2026-09-09
Notable findings and disputes
- strong corroboration Big Bee, Little Bee is operating as a current online consumer-products business. [ S-BIG-CURRENT, S-BIG-SHIPPING ]
- verified fact Amy Leinbach and her daughter Marlo are the people identified by the official site as the Big Bee and Little Bee behind the business. [ S-BIG-ABOUT ]
- credible report The Season 14 pitch did not produce a recorded Shark Tank deal, while the business continued self-funding and expanding its product and patent portfolio. [ S-BIG-BLOG, S-BIG-PATENT ]
- verified fact Big Bee, Little Bee LLC is named as assignee of a 2024 federal food-storage-container patent. [ S-BIG-PATENT ]
What we could not verify
- The bounded Wayback query was rate-limited in this pass, so no complete archived-page diff is claimed.
- The California legal entity's current state standing was not directly retrieved.
- The available no-deal evidence is strong but comes from follow-up coverage rather than a Shark Tank contract or company filing.
Full research sources
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S-BIG-CURRENT — Big Bee, Little Bee — current store
official company page
accessed 2026-09-09
Current products, shipping and 2026 footer.
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S-BIG-ABOUT — The Big Bee & The Little Bee
official company page
accessed 2026-09-09
Founder and product history; lists patent numbers.
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S-BIG-SHIPPING — Big Bee, Little Bee shipping and returns
official company page
accessed 2026-09-09
Current fulfillment and return process.
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S-BIG-BLOG — Big Bee Little Bee Shark Tank Update — Shark Tank Blog
secondary follow-up
published 2025-07-21 accessed 2026-09-09
Reports the ask, no-deal result and later sales context.
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S-BIG-PATENT — Food storage container — US11970314B2
federal patent record
published 2024-04-30 accessed 2026-09-09
Federal assignee record for Big Bee, Little Bee LLC.
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S-BIG-TM — BIG BEE, LITTLE BEE trademark record
federal trademark record mirror
published 2018-07-03 accessed 2026-09-09
Reproduces claimed first-use date; owner history is included as a dated federal filing mirror, not a state certificate.
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S-BIG-REG — California business search portal
state registry portal
accessed 2026-09-09
Exact entity record not retrieved in this pass.
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S-BIG-VIDEO — Big Bee, Little Bee Shark Tank clip — Sony Pictures Television
official video
published 2024-04-01 accessed 2026-09-09
SPTV corpus provenance for S14E5.
Status-Verification Sources
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Big Bee, Little Bee — current store
(bigbeelittlebee.com)
2026
The current official store is live, ships products, and presents SoftShell containers and children’s products; the footer is dated 2026.
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The Big Bee & The Little Bee — official about page
(bigbeelittlebee.com)
2026
Amy Leinbach identifies the business as a self-funded mother-daughter company and identifies Marlo as the inventor of the Marker Parker; the page lists patent numbers.
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Big Bee Little Bee Shark Tank Update — Shark Tank Blog
(sharktankblog.com)
2025-07-21
The follow-up records the $100,000-for-20% ask and says the Sharks passed, while the company continued selling products afterward.
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Food storage container — US11970314B2
(patents.google.com)
2024-04-30
The federal patent record lists Big Bee, Little Bee LLC as assignee for a food-storage-container patent granted in 2024.
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Big Bee, Little Bee Shark Tank clip — Sony Pictures Television
(youtube.com)
2024-04-01
Official SPTV provenance for the Season 14, Episode 5 Big Bee, Little Bee pitch.