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Dragons' Den Season 8: After the Handshake

The season 8 pitches we follow past the episode, tracked to what you can still buy.

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Season 8 of Dragons' Den aired in 2010. We track 4 of its pitches here, following each one past the on-air handshake.

Of those, 4 struck a deal on air and 0 left without one. Deal terms below are public record; whether a product is still for sale is something we verify separately.

Season 8 gives us four pitches, and three of them we can read line by line. The Wand Company brought the fattest ask of the group at £200,000 for 30%, pricing itself near £666,000 and dwarfing Hawksdrift Falconry's modest £50,000 for a quarter of the business. Worthenshaw's sat in the middle on £65,000 for 30%.

The odd one out on paper is Funky Moves, which walked off with a handshake but kept its final equity off camera. So the year reads as three deals you can audit and one where the ask is visible (£120,000 for 50%) but the outcome is not.

Three deals you can audit, one that stayed behind the curtain.