Dragons' Den Canada archive
Dragons' Den Canada Season 14
The season 14 Canadian pitches we follow, from the number on the floor to where each business stands now.
59 products and businesses across 9 episodesFigures below are the ask each founder brought to the Den, in Canadian dollars. The on-air result, where we have it, is on each pitch page.
Products from this season
Browse the pitches, episode by episode
Episode 1
5 pitches
Episode 2
5 pitches
Episode 3
5 pitches
Episode 4
5 pitches
Episode 5
5 pitches
Two Sisters on a Mission
youth social enterprise promoting artists from remote parts of the world
Episode 6
8 pitches
Episode 7
5 pitches
Episode 8
5 pitches
Episode 9
11 pitches
Centauri-Odyssey
internet-controlled telepresence rovers on a simulated lunar mining course
GenM
digital marketing apprenticeships pairing students with businesses needing free marketing
Other pitches this season
5 pitches
Season 14 of the Canadian Dragons' Den aired starting in the fall of 2019. We track four of its pitches here, each one followed past the moment the ask hit the floor.
CBC broadcasts the ask but rarely the boardroom result, so for most of these the deal question stays open and we say so plainly. Where a founder or a news outlet has confirmed an outcome, we spell it out with the source.
Four season 14 pitches sit in the Canadian files, and between them they cover almost every way a Den negotiation can end. C-Spray carries the most instructive terms: Elliot Kimelman landed every dollar of his $100,000 ask but surrendered 40 percent plus a 10 percent royalty, about as heavy as Den terms get.
Haystax Mortgage took a similar shape at a bigger number. Michele Romanow paid the full $500,000 but priced it at 30 percent rather than the 20 the brokerage offered, and the founders took it. Caribou went the other way: Cory Brightwall had $350,000 in front of him, watched the equity soften from 30 percent to 25, and still walked rather than hand over a quarter of a woodworking business. Norden drew no offer at all.
Read as a group, the season splits along how badly each founder needed the money. Both deals that closed cost more of the company than the founders came in offering, while the one who refused kept all of Caribou and is still selling countertops, islands and slabs across Canada and into several US states. The Dragons' price, not their appetite, was the deciding variable in three of these four rooms.
Two deals bought at a steep price, one offer refused, one pass.