Dragons' Den Canada Season 18

Season 18 of Dragons' Den Canada aired across the 2023 to 2024 broadcast run on CBC. We follow 10 of its pitches here, taking each one past the studio and into a present-day check.

One thing to set out plainly: CBC broadcasts the ask, the amount and the equity a founder puts on the table, but it does not publish a running ledger of which handshakes closed. So on these pages we treat the ask as the hard fact and verify current business status separately, labelling every result as confirmed, confirmed no-deal, or simply not on the record.

Season 18 is unusually deal-heavy: most of the tracked pitches from this season left the floor with a Dragon's yes, which is not how the show usually runs.

It is also the best season for reading what happens after that yes. Cook It turned a Dickinson partnership into an acquisition by Fresh Prep. Covergalls and Oneberrie both watched agreed investments come apart in due diligence, and both brands are still trading regardless. Bannock Express chose Arlene Dickinson's 20 percent over a competing bid that wanted half the company. The two that left empty-handed, a family agritourism farm and a paddleboard brand, had both asked the room to price an asset-heavy business the way it prices a scaling startup.