Fixed

Fixed was a mobile app built around one narrow promise: fight your parking ticket for you, automatically. Rather than making users navigate the contest process themselves, the app filed the paperwork on their behalf, and it later extended the same approach to traffic citations. The appeal was close to universal, since almost everyone who drives has picked up a ticket they thought was unfair.

Fixed appeared in Season 7, Episode 14, which aired in January 2016. Founder David Hegarty asked for 700,000 dollars for 5 percent of the company, a 14 million dollar valuation and one of the more aggressive asks of the season.

Mark Cuban made the deal on air, putting up the full 700,000 dollars but taking 7 percent equity instead of the 5 percent offered, with an additional 2 percent structured as advisory shares. Hegarty accepted, and unlike a lot of televised handshakes that quietly die in due diligence, this one is reported to have actually closed.

The problem came from outside the deal. After the episode was filmed in 2015, cities including Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles blocked Fixed from accessing the municipal systems it needed to submit contests programmatically. Reporting describes everything from being locked out of city ticket websites to agencies simply disconnecting the fax machines Fixed had been using to file paperwork. The company shut down its original parking ticket business and tried to pivot to traffic citations, a related but narrower niche, which bought time without being enough to sustain the business independently.

Five months to the day after the episode aired, Fixed was acquired by Lawgix, a multi-state law firm, according to TechCrunch's coverage of the deal at the time. The acquisition folded Fixed's technology and team into Lawgix's operations, and the standalone app and brand were discontinued not long after. There has been no relaunch or successor product under the Fixed name since.