The pitch
What walked into the Den
Coffee Bike, Vladislav Priadko’s pedal-powered mobile espresso bar, appeared in season 20, episode 7, out of Vancouver.
Set out to raise $150,000 for a cut of 12 percent, an implied worth of $1,250,000.
After the show
What happened next
The deal blank, we put the weight on confirming the company's current shape.
The business itself is running. Trade coverage from 2024 has it operating and crowdfunding an expansion, an industry award mention appears in 2026, and a vendor listing is active, though the company’s own site blocked our direct fetch, so we could not confirm a checkout there.
Our read
The Hub verdict
The ask is clean enough, a mid-six-figure raise for a twelfth of the company at a valuation around a million and a quarter, but the story here is what we refuse to say. A run of web summaries claims Priadko closed with Arlene Dickinson, and every primary source we reached either described only the taping or would not load.
So we treat that deal claim as an unverified summarizer artifact and keep it off the page, which is the whole reason an evidence-first tracker exists. What we can support is that the business runs, with trade coverage showing it operating and crowdfunding an expansion and an industry award mention surfacing in 2026, even though the company's own site blocked our fetch.
An operating business and a deal rumour we will not repeat.
Worth knowing: An unverified deal rumour is exactly the kind of thing this site refuses to launder into fact, so we report the ask and the operating signs and stop there.
