The pitch
What walked into the Den
Tommy Nguyen founded Marry Me Mochi, a family-run mochi-donut business based in Toronto that has since spread across the Greater Toronto Area.
The brand opened Season 20, episode 1, which aired in 2025, with a request of $700,000 for a 5% stake. Doing the arithmetic, that sets an implied value of $14,000,000 on a business built around a single sweet.
After the show
What happened next
Marry Me Mochi says it closed a deal with two Dragons on air, framing it as a signal of product-market fit and room to scale nationally.
The storefront is thriving as of our July 23, 2026 look: a working online ordering system, several GTA locations, franchise and investor pages, an open hiring board, and a loyalty program all point to a going concern.
Our read
The Hub verdict
The math is quietly steep. Seven hundred thousand dollars for 5% implies a $14,000,000 valuation on a mochi-donut brand, which is a lot of confidence to attach to a single dessert format.
Two Dragons signing on is the validation an ask like that needs. A brand asking for a fourteen-million price is really pitching a franchise system rather than a dessert, and the footprint since supports the read: several GTA locations, a working online ordering system, and franchise and investor pages built to recruit the next operator. The donut is the product, the franchise is the business, and it is the second one the room bought into.
Worth knowing: The two-Dragon deal comes from the company's own blog.
