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Who were the Dragons’ Den Dragons and where are they now?

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By 19395pwpadmin on Small Business UK – Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs

Dragons’ Den has been on our screens for a long time and we’ve seen plenty of hits and misses among the investors.   

Over the BBC programme’s 17-year tenure, business hopefuls have faced 19 Dragons in the nerve-rattling Den.

You may not know that Dragons’ Den originated in Japan in 2001 and was called The Tigers of Money while the US version is known as Shark Tank.   

With successes like Levi Roots’ Reggae Reggae Sauce and Sam Jones’ internet browser, Gener8, the Dragons’ approval still holds a lot of heft in the business world.

Nobody beats Peter Jones on the investment front though, having invested £5,983,167 in total, according to the BBC.

Now that we’re in series 20, we look back to some of the Dragons who have left the Den and where they are now.
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Dragons’ Den: In which a Dragon is vanquished – review (S18, ep 10)

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Originally written by Alice Feilden on Small Business
As always, there’s high drama in the Den. Even Dragons cannot escape the pandemic, and Theo Paphitis stepped in to join the panel after Peter Jones was told to quarantine.
Perched on the edge of his seat for much of the show, an excitable Paphitis gave investment hopefuls the sharp-tongued once over, before turning down every single one. Oh Theo, how we’ve missed your kindly nature and natural munificence.
In all fairness to Paphitis’ indomitable spirit, this week’s episode was characterised by impressive ideas with bad business decisions.
>See also: Sara Davies of Dragons’ Den 7 tips for small business
First to the floor was Deborah Lockhart with Honest Blends, a company specialising in luxurious organic plant-based products. With an impressive corporate background in business development for brands including Tesla and BMW, Lockhart impressed the judges with her confident presentation. She asked for a £50,000 investment for 10 per cent of the business. Yet the sporadic range, including tealeaves, coffee, hand sanitiser, gin and bottled water made from sugar cane, confused the Dragons.
Sara Davies was concerned the multitude of products forebode problems for investors. “You’ve made me feel that you are all over the place,” she told

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Dragon’s Den: a lesson in how not to run a small business – review (S18, ep 9)

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Originally written by Alice Feilden on Small Business
This week’s episode of Dragon’s Den featured some promising high-flyers, including a nervous Jack Nyber, who hid his sugar-free sweetener packaging among a bountiful display of luscious watermelons, grapes and pears in desperate hope the judges wouldn’t notice his half-baked branding. Nyber seemed underwhelmed as he relayed impressive sales, bringing in a cool £28,000 a week and on track to turnover almost £1.5m this year. Squirming with nerves, Nyber walked away with a £75,000 investment after some rigorous squabbling between the Dragons.
There was plenty more where that came from. The bickering ramped up a notch when Tim Keaveney and Matt Aubrey, owners of eco-friendly refillable cleaning products company, Homethings, stole the show. All five of the Dragons made an offer to the squeaky-clean duo, and the sharp elbows came out.
Deborah Meaden pulled faces when Sara Davies pronounced infomercials as ‘the key way to recruiting customers’. Davies shouted about Touker Suleyman’s ‘oversight’ when suggesting Homethings go for a deal split three ways between himself, Tej Lalvani and longest-standing Dragon, Peter Jones. Jones himself positively begged to be let in on a deal with Meaden. ‘I’m riding on Deborah’s shirt tails right now,’ said Jones,

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Entrepreneur Q&A: I think turning down the Dragons was the right decision

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Appearing on Dragons’ Den is an ambition for many small business owners, but few would imagine coming away with no investment. After being on the show in 2018, PitPat – an activity tracker for dogs – had nothing but a couple of sales, even though it received multiple funding offers. The company’s founder, Andrew Nowell,
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Dragons’ Den Series 14: Takeaway tips for entrepreneurs

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I’ve been an avid fan of Dragons’ Den for many years, and have often wondered if there’s a recipe for success when it comes to the perfect pitch. Intrigued, I did some research into all of the investments that have been made over the last 13 series, to see if there were any common traits
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