Karu Design Sport Bikinis
Kaoru Matsui from Montreal, QC, hopes her stay-put sports bikini will score points with the Dragons.
The ask
C$100,000 for 40%
Stated on air as “100K for 40%”
Deal outcome: not recorded. CBC does not publish Dragons' Den Canada deal results, so we show every entrepreneur's ask, not disclosed terms.
Pitched by: Kaoru Matsui
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The Dragons' Den Canada pitch
- C$100K
- Asked for
- 40%
- Equity offered
- C$250K
- Implied valuation
- S8 · Ep 3
- Season
Kaoru Matsui from Montreal, QC, hopes her stay-put sports bikini will score points with the Dragons.
Kaoru Matsui from Montreal, QC entered the Den in Season 8, episode 3 and asked the Dragons for C$100,000 in exchange for 40% of the business.
What happened next isn't part of the public record: CBC does not release Dragons' Den Canada deal outcomes. This page documents the ask exactly as it was made, and never claims a deal was struck.
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