DENVER — A Denver-based company entered ABC’s “Shark Tank” television show last week and came out with a $300,000 investment from the CEO of a popular fast food chain.
Zhach Pham and Steven Graf, the founders of RigStrips, a Denver-based startup that sells gear holsters aiming to protect vehicles from damage if gear slides down their cars, witnessed their company take off quickly after its launch in 2020. They were recruited to pitch their company to “Shark Tank’s” celebrity investors for the show’s episode that aired last Friday.
The entrepreneurs struck a deal with the show’s guest venture capitalist “shark,” Todd Graves, CEO and founder of Raising Cane’s, a chicken finger restaurant chain…