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Krazy Dan’s Pickled Wieners productLeft without a deal

Dragons' Den Canada Season 13 · Episode 17

Krazy Dan’s Pickled Wieners

small-batch pickled wieners and pickled snack products

Pickled wieners went to the Den in season 13. Here is Krazy Dan's ask and where the brand stands now.

The ask$200,000for 10% of the business
Implied valuation$2Mask / equity
Founders: Danny Shaver, Yvonne Laub

The pitch

What walked into the Den

Krazy Dan's is a small-batch operation built around pickled wieners and related pickled snacks.

Danny Shaver and Yvonne Laub pitched in season 13, asking $200,000 for a 10 percent stake at an implied $2 million valuation.

After the show

What happened next

No Dragon invested.

Our read

The Hub verdict

A 10 percent ask put $2 million on a small-batch pickled-snack maker, and the panel would not price a novelty jar anywhere near that. The rejections were blunt, one Dragon drawing a line between tangible businesses and wiener dreams, and nobody came back with a counter of any kind. That is the usual fate of a joke-adjacent food product asking a seven-figure valuation before it has the shelf space to support it. Little of the operation is visible today: the company's own domain no longer resolves, while a review listing still points to some recent activity behind it.

No deal on a seven-figure ask; own domain now dead