BenjiLock is still in business, and the company is considerably easier to find than some recent “Shark Tank update” pages suggest.
The Los Angeles company founded by Robbie Cabral is still developing and selling fingerprint-enabled locks. In 2025, it launched a new stainless-steel Outdoor Fingerprint Padlock, sold it through ZenSupply and Wayfair, exhibited at CES and NAMM, and saw the product named to TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025. (benjilock.com)
That makes the answer to “whatever happened to BenjiLock?” fairly straightforward: it survived Shark Tank, shifted increasingly toward licensing and biometric technology partnerships, and is still operating. What is less clear is the company’s current financial scale. BenjiLock does not publicly disclose current revenue figures, and some frequently repeated online estimates should not be treated as verified.
BenjiLock took a $200,000 Shark Tank deal from Kevin O’Leary
Robbie Cabral entered Season 9 of Shark Tank asking for $200,000 in exchange for 10% of BenjiLock.
His product was unusual for a simple reason: it was a traditional padlock that could also be opened with a fingerprint. Cabral had developed the technology after noticing how often people forgot keys or combinations at the gym. BenjiLock's own account says he spent three years developing the patented fingerprint-hybrid technology before getting his breakthrough at CES. (benjilock.com)
The Sharks showed interest, and Kevin O’Leary ultimately offered $200,000 for 15% of the company.
Cabral accepted.
The deal was subsequently turned into a licensing arrangement involving Hampton Products, the security-hardware company behind brands including BRINKS. The Consumer Technology Association later confirmed that Cabral accepted O’Leary’s deal and that the partnership with O’Leary and Hampton followed the Shark Tank appearance. (ces.tech)
There is an important distinction here. The $200,000 for 15% was the televised Shark Tank investment. The much larger numbers that appeared afterward involved licensing and commercial distribution, not a second $1 million-plus equity investment from O’Leary.
The first big post-Shark Tank milestone was a $450,000 licensing deal
The immediate post-show story was unusually strong.
In a November 2017 CNBC segment, Hampton Products CEO Kim Kelley appeared with Cabral and O’Leary and offered BenjiLock a $450,000 licensing deal, according to contemporary coverage of the segment. Hampton would handle the North American side of the business while Cabral retained his intellectual property. (inc.com)
Cabral also received a $100,000 royalty check from Hampton, an amount documented by contemporary reporting about the partnership. (soundandvision.com)
Then came another number that has become part of the BenjiLock story: a reported $1.5 million Ace Hardware order.
That figure was associated with BenjiLock's appearance at CES 2018 and was widely reported at the time. It was an order, however, not $1.5 million in confirmed annual revenue or profit. That distinction matters because later Shark Tank websites sometimes compress orders, licensing payments and company revenue into a single “sales” narrative. (slashgear.com)
Hampton helped turn BenjiLock from a prototype into a retail product
The Hampton relationship gave BenjiLock something Cabral could not easily build alone: manufacturing, distribution and access to an established hardware business.
Contemporary reports said Hampton obtained North American rights and placed BenjiLock products into major retailers including Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe’s and Amazon. (sharktankblog.com)
That was the real significance of O’Leary's involvement. The value of the deal wasn't simply the $200,000 investment shown on television. It connected a one-person hardware startup with an established security-products manufacturer.
Cabral himself later described BenjiLock as having expanded beyond the original padlock. By 2022, the company's product range included fingerprint locks aimed at musicians and equipment cases, as well as other security applications. BenjiLock's presence at NAMM reflected a growing focus on protecting musical equipment and other professional gear. (benjilock.com)
BenjiLock eventually moved beyond the original Shark Tank product
The company did not remain dependent on one fingerprint padlock.
BenjiLock's current product range includes signature fingerprint padlocks, travel locks, residential locks, commercial products, heavy-duty locks and custom solutions. Its website also explicitly lists technology licensing, product-distribution licensing and regional licensing as business opportunities. (benjilock.com)
That shift is visible in the partnerships BenjiLock announced after its original Hampton relationship.
In 2023, BenjiLock announced a global agreement with Swedish biometric technology company Fingerprints to incorporate its fingerprint sensors, software and algorithms into BenjiLock's physical-access products. (globenewswire.com)
That same year, BenjiLock announced partnerships with TKL Cases in the music industry and TechLok Solutions for laptop security. It also announced a licensing partnership with Japan's 1st Place around the virtual artist IA, including a limited-edition fingerprint lock. (benjilock.com)
In other words, the company increasingly treated its fingerprint technology as something that could be incorporated into other products, rather than limiting the business to selling padlocks under its own name.
The current BenjiLock product is a very different lock from the one on Shark Tank
The newest generation shows how far the product has evolved.
In January 2025, BenjiLock unveiled its Outdoor Fingerprint Padlock at CES. The stainless-steel model has an IP68 rating, can store up to 10 fingerprints, uses USB-C charging and is designed for outdoor applications including gates, storage units, lockers, toolboxes and equipment. BenjiLock announced an initial retail price of $79.99 through ZenSupply. (benjilock.com)
By August 2025, BenjiLock announced that the same Outdoor Fingerprint Padlock was available through Wayfair. (benjilock.com)
And this was not merely a product sitting on a dormant company website. BenjiLock exhibited the new product at NAMM 2025, targeting musicians, touring professionals and production crews. The company said the lock was available through ZenSupply for $79.99. (benjilock.com)
Then TIME put another marker on the company's recent trajectory.
In October 2025, TIME named the BenjiLock Fingerprint Padlock one of its Best Inventions of 2025, specifically highlighting the stainless-steel outdoor version and its biometric design. (time.com)
That is strong evidence against the idea that BenjiLock simply faded away after its initial Shark Tank publicity.
So is BenjiLock still in business?
Yes.
The strongest evidence is not an old Shark Tank recap or a third-party “net worth” estimate. It is BenjiLock's own recent operating activity.
The company's website currently lists a range of products and an authorized-partner program. Its latest product pages direct customers to ZenSupply and Wayfair, while its corporate material continues to promote licensing opportunities. (benjilock.com)
There is also independent confirmation of continued activity. TIME recognized the company's product in 2025, while the Consumer Technology Association described BenjiLock as an active biometric-security company and noted that its technology had received more than 50 industry awards. (time.com)
Robbie Cabral also remained publicly active into 2026, celebrating BenjiLock's inclusion in TIME's Best Inventions of 2025. (linkedin.com)
What cannot be established confidently from public sources is BenjiLock's current annual revenue, valuation or net worth.
Some Shark Tank-focused websites publish figures such as $5 million in annual revenue or estimated personal net worth for Cabral. Those numbers are not accompanied by audited financial statements or a primary-source disclosure in the material reviewed here. They should therefore be treated as estimates, not established facts. (sharktankblog.com)
The real BenjiLock Shark Tank update is less dramatic than the internet makes it
BenjiLock is a useful example of what a Shark Tank deal can look like when the business does not become a household-name consumer brand.
The televised deal was $200,000 for 15% with Kevin O’Leary. The more consequential development was the licensing relationship that followed with Hampton Products, which gave Cabral access to manufacturing and distribution. A reported $450,000 licensing deal and a reported $1.5 million Ace Hardware order followed soon after. (statsforsharks.com)
Years later, the company is still trading on the same underlying idea: fingerprint authentication built into physical security hardware. But BenjiLock has broadened the application considerably, from a clever gym-locker alternative into travel, residential, commercial, music and technology licensing.
The current evidence does not support the claim that BenjiLock is dead, shut down or merely surviving on old Shark Tank publicity. It also does not support confidently attaching a precise current revenue or valuation figure to the company.
The more defensible answer, as of 2026, is simpler: BenjiLock is still operating, still selling biometric locks, and still licensing its technology. The Shark Tank deal was the beginning of that story, not the end of it.
