Intisar Bashir and Rashid Mahdi pitch their Cleveland-based company Browndages to the investors on ABC's "Shark Tank."The husband-and-wife duo launched Columbus, Ohio-based Browndages, which sells a diverse array of skin-toned bandages, in 2018. On Friday's episode of ABC's "Shark Tank," the co-founders said that sales were initially slow — until June 2020, when Black Lives Matter protests swept across the U.S.
That, Cuban said, could have a ripple effect — helping the brand "extend into multiple communities, so they can all feel represented." For example, the Mavericks "partner with schools all around [Dallas]," he said, noting that those schools' nurses could also distribute Browndages' bandages. "We wanted to instill in our children and show them that even a product as small as a bandage should take you into consideration," Bashir said.