brellaBox
Research status: unresolved as of 2026-09-09
Also known as: Brellabox, Brella Box, 'brellabox Inc., brellaBox Inc.
Shark Tank Tales reports cessation in April 2018. The retrieved article does not link primary closure evidence, so this remains an attributed report rather than an independently established terminal verdict.
Shark Tank appearance
Season 7, episode 26
- Air date
- 2016-04-29
- Appearance source
- brellaBox — official video retained from the corpus ledger clip
- Episode guide
- Authoritative episode guide
- Pitch
- Umbrella-rental vending kiosks.
- Ask
- $400,000 for 20% equity.
- Offer
- Anusha Kambhampaty and John O’Connor left without a deal after all Sharks declined.
- Deal closed?
- No
Legal and entity identity
- Legal entities
- Unresolved
- Aliases
- Brellabox, Brella Box, 'brellabox Inc., brellaBox Inc.
- Successor/acquirer
- None verified
No conclusive registry record was retrieved.
Notable findings and disputes
- credible report Shark Tank Tales reports cessation in April 2018. The retrieved article does not link primary closure evidence, so this remains an attributed report rather than an independently established terminal verdict. [ BREL7 ]
- credible report Shark Tank Tales reports a $400,000-for-20% ask and no investment from the Sharks. [ BREL7 ]
What we could not verify
- A direct founder shutdown notice, contemporaneous operational record or independently corroborated closure report remains needed. A state dissolution filing is not required to prove commercial cessation, but corporate dissolution is a separate unverified claim.
- Research draft identifies 'brellabox Inc. / brellaBox Inc. (historical federal IP owner/assignee; exact punctuation varies by record). This is a legal-identity research lead, not an independently verified current state-registry result. Entity number, standing and succession require primary-record review.
- New York entity number and current/former corporate standing for brellaBox Inc.
- Primary contemporaneous shutdown notice or state dissolution/termination record fixing the closure date.
- Whether any patents, kiosk assets, software or brand IP were later sold or assigned.
- Direct current metadata/transcript retrieval for Sony video cnKUmYZdsts.
- Wayback captures of brellabox.com sufficient to reconstruct service shutdown chronologically.
- No archived before/after page comparison was verified in this review. Absence from current text does not establish historical absence, concealment or motive.
Full research sources
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BREL1 — brellaBox — Sony Pictures Television video preserved in project ledger
Sony Pictures Television video preserved in project ledger
accessed 2026-09-09
See the specific attributed claims and remaining limitations; source inclusion does not establish all draft claims.
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BREL2 — brellaBox — episode database
episode database
accessed 2026-09-09
See the specific attributed claims and remaining limitations; source inclusion does not establish all draft claims.
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BREL7 — brellaBox — later follow-up reporting
later follow-up reporting
published 2025-12-15 accessed 2026-09-09
See the specific attributed claims and remaining limitations; source inclusion does not establish all draft claims.
Status-Verification Sources
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brellaBox — later follow-up reporting
(sharktanktales.com)
2025-12-15
Shark Tank Tales reports cessation in April 2018. The retrieved article does not link primary closure evidence, so this remains an attributed report rather than an independently established terminal verdict.