The pitch
What walked into the Den
DBL Designs, Krista Eady’s line of handcrafted 14-karat gold jewelry from Craven, Saskatchewan, appeared in season 20, episode 2.
Hoped to secure $50,000 for 10 percent, valuing it at close to $500,000.
After the show
What happened next
Past the unrecorded deal, current trading is the part we can stand behind.
The shop is a curious case: in July 2026 its Shopify store was live with priced pieces from $32 to $220 and a working cart, but every listed item showed as sold out, so we read it as an operating brand caught fully out of stock rather than a closed one.
Our read
The Hub verdict
A small maker ask, fifty thousand put up for a tenth stake at a half-million self-price, frames this fine-jewelry pitch. The number is conservative, which fits a handcrafted brand where capacity, not ambition, tends to be the ceiling.
No verdict reached the record, so we grade only the ask. The wrinkle is the shop itself, live and priced with a working cart yet every piece reading sold out. We take that as an operating maker fully out of stock rather than a dead one, and we frame it that way instead of overstating in either direction.
A live jewelry store, fully sold out, no recorded outcome.
Worth knowing: Sold-out listings on a live store point to a running but stock-constrained business, and say nothing about whether a Dragon invested.
