Bottle Breacher

Bottle Breacher makes bottle openers by hand from inert .50 caliber rifle casings. Eli Crane, a Navy SEAL veteran, and Jen Crane built the business in Tucson, Arizona, and framed it around hiring and training fellow veterans coming out of military service, so the pitch carried a mission alongside a genuinely unusual physical product.

The Cranes pitched in Season 6, Episode 8, which aired in November 2014. They asked for 150,000 dollars for 10 percent equity to scale production. Mark Cuban and Kevin O'Leary teamed up and funded the full 150,000 dollars, but took 20 percent between them rather than the 10 percent on the table.

Two sharks co-investing is a conviction signal, and the pairing made sense for a company trying to move from a garage operation to national distribution: Cuban on marketing and scale, O'Leary on deal structure and discipline.

The company leaned harder into its veteran mission after the deal closed, reportedly supporting more than 280 veterans' events and partnering with organizations including the Navy SEAL Foundation, Folds of Honor, and the Chris Kyle Memorial Benefit. Production scaled with it. Tracking coverage of the post-show ramp describes output going from around 175 units a day before the episode to close to 1,000 a day afterward, and cites roughly 17 million dollars in cumulative sales. Those numbers come from tracking-site reporting rather than a company financial disclosure, so they are best read as reported rather than audited.

The product line widened well past the original opener into themed designs, holiday and corporate gift options, apparel, kitchen tools, and personalized engraving. More than a decade after the episode, Bottle Breacher is still selling across several channels at once, which is a stronger durability signal than most single-product Shark Tank alumni ever reach.