What happened to Toor after Shark Tank: is it still in business?
Toor was a business idea pitched on Shark Tank's eighth season in 2016. The founder pitched it as a digital tool to simplify how buyers access and tour listed properties. Two Sharks were impressed and invested. About ten years later, Toor is no longer in business. Despite early promise, the company never found its market.
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Key takeaways
- Toor is no longer in business, with lifetime sales of just $9,000 and an unresponsive website since late 2023.
- Despite a Shark Tank deal, the company never cracked a market dominated by Supra and SentriLock.
- Junior Desinor, Toor's creator, has since moved on, building new ventures across real estate, wellness and hospitality.
What happened to Toor after Shark Tank?
The company is no longer in business. Despite a promising start, the company quietly collapsed in the years following its Shark Tank appearance. Toor's app has not been updated since 2019. The website is unresponsive. The product is no longer available for purchase anywhere. The company reportedly made only $9,000 in lifetime sales.
Was Toor successful after Shark Tank?
Toor's early post-Shark Tank moves were encouraging. The company partnered with Touch of Modern, a members-only e-commerce platform, making the lockboxes available for sale in 2018. The product was also listed on Inman, a widely-read real estate news publisher. A Canadian agency, Umber Realty, signed on as a client. Toor also brought in an identity verification partner to address concerns about unaccompanied property access.
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But the momentum did not last. More competitors entered the smart lockbox space, some with deeper pockets and existing real estate partnerships. Toor was not alone in testing the idea of agent-free home tours. Marketplace Homes launched a similar concept called Zip Tours, which later expanded into virtual tours during the pandemic. It also appears to have folded, with no activity since late 2020. The market was not ready for the idea, regardless of execution.
By 2020, Toor's creator, Junior Desinor, had opened a CBD store in Dallas with his wife. The Toor app had not received an update since 2019.
What is Toor?
Toor is a smart lockbox that appeared on Season 8 of Shark Tank. It was built to solve a specific frustration in real estate: the scheduling delays between buyers who want to view a property and agents who need to arrange access. The company behind it was called Toor Today.
The lockbox attaches to the door of a listed property. A potential buyer who spots a home they want to view requests access through a companion mobile app. The request alerts the property owner, who can then grant access remotely using Bluetooth and cellular technology. Buyers would no longer need to wait for an agent to schedule an open house. The process was designed to be immediate, flexible and independent.
There was an obvious concern. Many property owners would be uncomfortable with an unaccompanied stranger inside their home. Toor addressed this by building an option into the app to alert a nearby realtor when one was needed. The idea was to offer flexibility without removing the human element entirely.
Toor Shark Tank pitch
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Junior Desinor walked into the Tank valuing Toor at $5 million. He asked the Sharks for $500,000 in exchange for 10% equity. To demonstrate the product, he walked Barbara Corcoran through the app's functionality live on stage. He highlighted the security features, including an alert system that notified the homeowner if a viewer failed to return the key.
The Sharks pushed back when Desinor revealed he had not yet made any direct lockbox sales. But he had something to show for his efforts. His Kickstarter campaign had raised over $100,000. More importantly, 800 lockboxes had already been pre-ordered. It was not revenue, but it was proof that real buyers were willing to pay for the product.
Who invested in Toor?
Not all the Sharks were convinced. Lori Greiner was the first to back out, saying it was too early to invest. Chris Sacca was uncomfortable with the technology, unsure it was truly novel. Mark Cuban admitted he did not know enough about the real estate business to commit.
Barbara Corcoran and Kevin O'Leary were the two who stayed in. Kevin opened with $100,000 for a 10% share plus a $400,000 loan at 18% interest. Barbara expressed interest alongside him. Junior countered, proposing $250,000 upfront for 10% equity and a $250,000 loan.
The two Sharks deliberated and came back with a final offer. They would put in $200,000 upfront for 10% equity and provide a $300,000 loan. Junior accepted. Both Barbara and Kevin praised him warmly, with Kevin calling him one of the best salesmen he had ever seen on the show.
Who is the owner of Toor?
Toor was founded by Junior Desinor. He was born to Haitian immigrant parents and raised in Dallas, Texas. His family struggled financially while he was growing up. His parents worked five jobs between them to put him and his sister through a good school.
Desinor studied real estate finance at Texas Tech University. He launched his first business at eighteen, a party supply venture started with his college roommate. The profits from that business helped the two buy their first real estate property. They flipped it for a $20,000 profit. That early success set him on a path of renovating, flipping and building homes.
By 23, Desinor had obtained his real estate license, making him one of the youngest brokers in Texas. The American entrepreneur founded his first six-figure business in 2005 and his first seven-figure business five years later. Toor grew directly out of his experience in real estate, built on frustrations he had witnessed firsthand in the property showing process.
Toor's challenges in context
Toor did not simply fail due to poor execution. It ran into structural walls that would have challenged even a well-funded company. Many real estate professionals are accustomed to traditional methods and remain hesitant to embrace new technologies. For a hardware startup with limited capital, that resistance was fatal.
The MLS problem
Toor's biggest obstacle never featured in the Shark Tank pitch. The real estate lockbox industry is dominated by Supra and SentriLock, the only two systems that integrate directly with local MLS databases and verify the credentials of every person who approaches a property. These are not just popular products. They are embedded into local Realtor associations through long-term contracts.
Supra alone enables over 70% of all listing accesses, recording more than 32 million accesses annually. Breaking into that ecosystem would have required negotiating with hundreds of separate MLS boards. Toor had neither the capital nor the relationships to do that.
The hardware trap
Software startups can pivot overnight. Hardware startups cannot. Toor's product required manufacturing, distribution and ongoing maintenance. When sales stalled, there was no low-cost route to survival. Some proptech companies build platforms poorly integrated with existing industry systems. Others offer products that incumbents can easily replicate. Toor faced both problems simultaneously.
The ROI problem
Even a genuinely better product does not guarantee adoption. Toor never demonstrated a clear return to agents who already had functional alternatives. It also had no strategy for working alongside the MLS systems that controlled the market.
Toor's collapse did not reflect a dying industry. The global proptech market reached $40.58 billion in 2024 and is projected to triple to $120 billion by 2032. The companies thriving in this environment are those that work within existing infrastructure rather than against it. What successful proptech startups seek is not just money. They look for expertise and cooperation with established players. Toor sought to replace those players entirely. That was always going to be a harder sell.
How is Toor doing today?
As of June 2026, Toor still has a LinkedIn page. The page provides a detailed description of the company and its product. However, there haven’t been any posts on the page, and the company only lists the founder under employees.
What is Toor worth today?
Toor is no longer operating. The smart lockbox concept has been permanently discontinued. The estimated net worth of Toor is $0 as of 2026. The Shark Tank deal with Barbara Corcoran and Kevin O'Leary never fully materialised.
Without the institutional partnerships needed to compete with Supra and SentriLock, the company had no path to the revenue that would have justified its $5 million valuation.
What happened to Junior Desinor?
Junior Desinor's story did not end with his Shark Tank pitch, Toor. He has remained active across several industries since the lockbox failed.
By 2020, Desinor had co-founded City Naturals, a premium CBD and wellness business with his wife. They opened a physical store in Dallas, which they continue to operate. He also invested in Balloon Therapy, a balloon garland company.
His most ambitious post-Toor venture is Good Capital Partners, a boutique investment group focused on the hotel market. The group targets properties that have passed all government and city entitlements, taking advantage of early developer pricing to compound returns for investors.
Most recently, Desinor launched Desinor Custom Homes and broke ground on a luxury equestrian development in Lucas, Texas. He also holds three US patents from his work on Toor. As for Junior Desinor's net worth, no verified figure is publicly available. This has not been confirmed by any authoritative source.
Facts about Toor
- Toor was founded by Junior Desinor, a Dallas-based real estate broker and entrepreneur with over two decades of industry experience.
- The company raised over $100,000 on Kickstarter in 2016, securing 800 pre-orders before appearing on Shark Tank.
- Each lockbox cost $50 to manufacture and retailed at $199, giving Toor a healthy profit margin on paper.
- Barbara Corcoran and Kevin O'Leary invested $200,000 for 10% equity and provided a $300,000 loan at 18% interest.
- The Toor app was last updated in 2019, and the website has been unresponsive since late 2023.
- Toor reported only $9,000 in lifetime sales, making it one of the most underwhelming commercial outcomes in Shark Tank history.
Toor's story is a reminder that a great pitch and a great product are not the same thing. The real estate industry has its own rules. It rewards those who work within its structures, not those who try to replace them. Junior Desinor remains one of Shark Tank's most compelling founders. The lockbox may be gone, but his entrepreneurial journey clearly is not.
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