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Is Brazi Bites Still in Business? (2026 Update)
Is Brazi Bites from Shark Tank still around in 2026? Its on-air agreement, what happened afterward, and current ordering options.
Junea Rocha turned a Brazilian childhood snack recipe into a frozen food company, and by the time Brazi Bites reached Shark Tank in Season 7, the cheese bread was already sitting in 700 stores across 20 states. The Lori Greiner deal that followed never actually closed, but Brazi Bites did not need it to become one of the bigger success stories in the show's food category.
The Short Answer
Yes, Brazi Bites is very much still in business, and it has grown well past its Shark Tank scale. The Brazilian cheese bread bites, and now Pizza Bites as well, are sold in major grocery chains and through the company's own site, with a reported lifetime revenue north of 200 million dollars as of mid-2024.
This is one of the wave's clearer thriving cases: a founder-built regional product that scaled into national grocery distribution and eventually attracted private equity interest.
The Shark Tank Pitch
Brazi Bites appeared in Season 7, Episode 9, with founders Cameron MacMullin and Junea Rocha pitching from their family kitchen recipe rooted in Rocha's upbringing in Brazil. She started developing the pao de queijo recipe commercially back in 2009, years before the TV appearance.
By pitch time the company already had real infrastructure behind it: a 5,000 square foot production facility and more than 15 employees, which is a stronger operational base than most food pitches bring to the Tank.
The Deal That Got Done
Multiple sharks showed interest, and the final on-air agreement was with Lori Greiner: 200,000 dollars for 16.5 percent equity. It was a competitive pitch with real back-and-forth, which is usually a good sign for a food brand trying to prove retail viability.
The deal never closed after the cameras stopped, according to later reporting. That did not slow the company down. Brazi Bites kept growing on its own trajectory, which is worth remembering any time a headline treats a Shark Tank handshake as the end of a company's story rather than the middle of it.
From 600,000 Dollars to a Private Equity Sale
In 2014, the year closest to the pitch, Brazi Bites reported 600,000 dollars in sales, with early projections showing the business roughly tripling year over year in the seasons that followed. That kind of growth curve is exactly what got the company into national freezer sections.
In July 2018, the founders sold a majority stake to San Francisco Equity Partners, with terms of the transaction undisclosed. That kind of institutional buyout is a strong signal that the underlying business had real, provable revenue and distribution, not just Shark Tank buzz.
By July 2024, the company's own reporting put lifetime revenue at over 200 million dollars, and the brand has since expanded the product line with Pizza Bites, launched in March 2022, riding the same frozen-snack distribution the original cheese bread built.
Brazi Bites net worth in 2026
Because Brazi Bites sold a majority stake to a private equity firm in 2018 on undisclosed terms, there is no clean public valuation figure to cite for the company today, and neither the founders nor San Francisco Equity Partners have published a current net worth estimate.
Given the reported 200 million dollar-plus lifetime revenue figure and the company's continued presence in major grocery chains, it is reasonable to describe Brazi Bites as one of the higher-value businesses in this spotlight wave, but any specific dollar figure beyond the revenue number itself would be speculation rather than a sourced fact.
Where Things Stand Now
Brazi Bites is alive, distributed nationally, and owned in majority part by an outside equity firm rather than running purely as a founder operation anymore. That is a very different shape of success than most Shark Tank food companies reach, and it happened despite the on-air deal falling through.
If your memory of this pitch is just Lori shaking hands on 16.5 percent, the more complete story is a company that outgrew that moment entirely and sold itself to institutional investors on its own terms years later.
It is also a useful case study in why a fallen-through deal is not the same thing as a failed company. Rocha and MacMullin kept building distribution relationships on their own timeline after the show, and by the time private equity came calling in 2018, they were negotiating from a position of real leverage rather than desperation for capital.
Recorded pitch result
Recorded on-air deal
- $200,000 recorded amount
- 16.5% equity
- With Lori Greiner
These are the recorded on-air terms. The pitch fields do not confirm completed funding; a company update may report later closing, changed terms or a deal that fell through.
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