The pitch
What walked into the Den
DBL Designs, Krista Eady’s line of handcrafted 14-karat gold jewelry from Craven, Saskatchewan, appeared in season 20, episode 2.
Hoped to secure $50,000 for 10 percent, valuing it at close to $500,000.
After the show
What happened next
In July 2026 its Shopify store was live with priced pieces from $32 to $220 and a working cart, with every listed item showing as sold out.
Our read
The Hub verdict
A small maker ask, fifty thousand put up for a tenth stake at a half-million self-price, frames this fine-jewelry pitch. The number is conservative, which fits a handcrafted brand where capacity, not ambition, tends to be the ceiling.
No Dragon invested. Handcrafted 14-karat jewelry is a capacity business where the founder's own hours are the ceiling, and a panel hunting for scale rarely finds it in a bench-made product. The shop tells that story neatly: live and priced from $32 to $220 with a working cart, and every piece currently showing sold out, which is what a maker at full stretch looks like.
A sold-out maker brand that left without a Dragon
Worth knowing: Sold-out listings on a live store point to a running but stock-constrained business, and say nothing about whether a Dragon invested.
