Boot Buddy

Rashpal, Gurminder and Amarinder Dhillon brought Boot Buddy to Dragons' Den in season 14, which aired in 2016.

In the pitch, Boot Buddy asked the Dragons for £60,000 for 30% of the business, valuing the business at about £200,000.

On air, Boot Buddy agreed a deal of £60,000 for 30%, backed by Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden and Touker Suleyman. The terms are quoted from the aired episode as public record.

We have not re-verified whether Boot Buddy's product is on sale today, so we make no availability claim here yet. The deal above is public record; the aftermath is what we are still checking.

Three Dhillon family members pitched Boot Buddy together, and fittingly three Dragons backed it. The ask was £60,000 for 30 percent, valuing the footwear-cleaning tool at £200,000, and Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden and Touker Suleyman split the stake at those precise terms. A three-way investor deal on a 30 percent slice leaves each Dragon with a single-figure holding, which is less about the money and more about pooling their retail contacts behind one gadget. Nothing in the record shows the equity climbing or the cash dropping, so this closed as proposed. Whether the tool is still sold today is a claim we would only make after checking a live listing ourselves.