ActionGlow Brothers Score New Retail Accounts, Talk Potential Documentary Series
By Craig Manning | July 12, 2026
Over 50 new retail accounts, placements in major big-box chains, and seven terabytes worth of raw video footage: These are a few of the things local entrepreneurs and brothers Garret and Dakota Porter brought back from the cross-country guerilla marketing tour they undertook last year.
The Porters are the founders of ActionGlow, a Traverse City-based company that makes and sells kits for outfitting snowboards, surfboards, skateboards, and other action sports gear with LED lights. So far, the Porters’ biggest claim to fame is their appearance on a November 2022 episode of the ABC reality TV show Shark Tank, where they landed a $200,000 investment from businessman and celebrity investor …
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