The pitch
What walked into the Den
Charlie Rose brought Boingy Boingy, a wearable drum kit, to the Den from Medicine Hat, Alberta.
His pitch aired in Season 6, episode 19, in 2011, and he asked for $100,000 for a 20% stake. That request valued the invention at $500,000.
After the show
What happened next
The Dragons passed. A BCIT alumni magazine profile states plainly that Rose did not secure an investment, so this one is a confirmed no-deal rather than an unknown.
The same profile suggests he has since moved on, now describing himself as an ecopreneur living on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast with his family. That reads as a soft sign the drum-kit business did not continue at scale, though nobody states it was formally shut down.
Our read
The Hub verdict
A $100,000 ask for 20% values the wearable drum kit at $500,000, and this is one of the few pages in the batch where the outcome is not a question mark: no deal, confirmed by a profile of the founder.
With a firm no-deal on the record, the analysis is short and honest. The ask tells you what was hoped for, the result tells you the room did not bite, and the founder's later path suggests the product did not scale, though nobody has formally called it closed.
A confirmed walkaway, cleanly sourced.
Worth knowing: No deal was struck, and while the founder appears to have moved on, we stop short of calling the venture closed without a direct statement.
