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Is Get Grinds Still in Business? (2026 Update)
Is Get Grinds from Shark Tank still around in 2026? Its on-air agreement, what happened afterward, and current ordering options.
Get Grinds pitched a genuinely odd idea back in Season 4: a tobacco-free, nicotine-free pouch you tuck under your lip like dip, except it's packed with ground coffee and B-vitamins instead of tobacco, giving you a caffeine hit without a cup. More than a decade later, that oddball pitch has turned into a product sold at some of the biggest travel and convenience retail chains in the country.
The Short Answer
Get Grinds, now generally marketed simply as Grinds, is still in business and has expanded well past a single flavor. The current lineup spans two product lines, the original coffee pouches and a newer white pouch line built on plant-based fiber, in flavors including Double Mocha, Cinnamon Roll, Spearmint, Blue Raspberry, Watermelon, and Pina Colada.
The real story is where you can buy it. Grinds has landed shelf space in Walmart and Walgreens, plus a run of major travel and fuel retailers including Casey's, Love's, Pilot Flying J, Buc-ee's, Cumberland Farms, and Stewart's Shops. That is exactly the kind of on-the-go, convenience-driven retail footprint a caffeine pouch product needs, and it is a far bigger distribution network than most Shark Tank food and beverage pitches ever land.
The Shark Tank Pitch
Get Grinds appeared in Season 4, Episode 15, which aired in 2013, pitched in the Food and Drink category out of San Francisco, California. The founders asked for 75,000 dollars in exchange for 10 percent of the company, valuing the business at 750,000 dollars on the ask, built around convincing the panel that people would put ground coffee in their lip the same way they'd put in dip or snuff.
The Deal That Got Done
Robert Herjavec and Daymond John teamed up on this one, agreeing to the full 75,000 dollars asked for but taking 15 percent of the company instead of the 10 percent on the table. That combination paired Herjavec's operational scaling background with Daymond John's consumer products and retail relationships, a useful mix for a company whose eventual success depended almost entirely on landing shelf space in exactly the kind of convenience and travel retail chains it now occupies.
It is worth noting that some outside recaps of this episode describe the pitch as ending without a deal, which conflicts with the deal terms on record here. This article uses the confirmed deal terms rather than the conflicting recap, since secondary sources on older episodes sometimes mix up seasons or pitches.
Get Grinds net worth in 2026
No specific, sourced net worth or revenue figure for Get Grinds is publicly available. What can be verified is the retail footprint: national placement at Walmart and Walgreens plus a wide network of regional and national fuel and travel retailers is not the kind of distribution a struggling or shrinking company typically holds onto. Retailers of that size generally require the sales volume and reliable fulfillment to justify the shelf space, and losing that placement tends to happen quickly and visibly. Without an audited figure, the most honest statement is that Get Grinds is operating at meaningful national retail scale as of this writing, even though no specific dollar valuation has been published.
Where Things Stand Now
Get Grinds pitched in Season 4 back in 2013 out of San Francisco, asking for 75,000 dollars for 10 percent, and closed with Robert Herjavec and Daymond John together at the same 75,000 dollars for 15 percent. More than a decade later, the company has grown into a two-line product with national convenience and travel retail placement at chains including Walmart, Walgreens, Buc-ee's, and Pilot Flying J.
For a product built around a genuinely unusual pitch, coffee you put in your lip instead of drink, the fact that it is stocked at some of the largest fuel and convenience retailers in the country is a strong signal the concept found a real customer base. If you were checking whether it survived its 2013 Shark Tank appearance, it clearly did, and it is easier to buy today than it was the year it aired. Getting a novelty caffeine product into truck stop and highway convenience chains at this scale, more than a decade after a single episode aired, is the kind of long, unglamorous distribution grind that never makes it back onto television, but it is exactly the work that separates a lasting Shark Tank success from a one-season flash.
Recorded pitch result
Recorded on-air deal
- $75,000 recorded amount
- 15% equity
- With Robert Herjavec + Daymond John
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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