The pitch
What walked into the Den
Adaptt Apparel, the adaptive-clothing venture from Katharine Perry and William Lecky of Cornwall, Ontario, reached the season 20 Den with a tidy ask. CBC’s pitch data carries no episode number for this appearance, so we leave the exact slot out rather than guess it.
Came in seeking $125,000 against 10 percent, which pegged the company at about $1,250,000.
After the show
What happened next
A Cornwall Seaway News piece headlined around a Dragons’ Den deal names Perry and Adaptt directly, so an investment was landed. The story would not open for us, which means the backing Dragon and the final split are things we flag as unconfirmed rather than report as fact.
The commercial side is healthy: our July 2026 visit found a live Shopify shop with pieces priced near $80, a running promo code, and full checkout including Apple Pay and Shop Pay.
Our read
The Hub verdict
The ask is the disciplined part of this story: a mid-six-figure raise for only a tenth of the company, a valuation north of a million and a founding team protecting ownership rather than surrendering a third of the business. For an adaptive-clothing brand with an obvious social use case, that is a confident opening number.
A Cornwall newspaper headline confirms a deal was struck, but the report stayed behind a block, so the backing Dragon and the final split are unconfirmed and we say so rather than guess. What we can stand behind on the aftermath is a live store around eighty dollars a piece with full modern checkout, which puts this firmly in the healthy-and-trading column whatever the exact terms.
A confirmed deal with terms we could not read, and a live store.
Worth knowing: We are relying on a local headline for the deal itself and could not read the full report, so the terms sit a rung below the ask, which is the only hard figure here.
