Apps with questionable benefits and vegan food to save the world: The fifth episode offered the typical DHDL mix. The human aspect was not neglected either. At an enchanting bicycle dealer from Bremen, the lions invested more in the founder than in her product.
This pitch didn’t go unnoticed. “My bottom feeling is great!” Judith Williams enthused after a test drive on the free, a saddle joint that promises more mobility on the bike and is not only good for the buttocks, but especially for the back. “I trust my butt 100 percent to your invention,” Williams said to the two founders. Only: did that also apply to your money?
The presented products
- chaanz: The going-out app wants to arrange spontaneous real-life dates.
- : The bike adapter attaches between the saddle and the frame and allows the rider to move 15 degrees in all directions. This activates the muscle groups in your back.
- Happy Ocean Shrimp: The vegan shrimp alternative is aimed at overfishing the seas and pointless by-catches. It contains vegetable proteins and, like real fish, is rich in omega-3 fatty acids.
- shower plus: The applicator is mounted between the shower faucet and the shower hose and adds sea salt to the water. This is to care for the skin and relieve irritation.
- Woollaa: With its industrial knitting machine, the slow fashion label only produces clothing that will actually be sold. The designers have developed special software for this purpose.
The best shaky game
Why do you always have to ride your bike – why can’t you ride it sometimes? That’s what Iris thought, a very bright woman in her late fifties from Bremen, who knows both horses and bicycles well. She has run a business with her husband for decades. It was there that she had her “brain of inspiration” to turn the bike into a horse with an elastic saddle frame. The lions liked, but they were almost even more impressed by the jolly founder and her no less enthusiastic daughter. “They’re both great, a wonderful unit,” said Judith Williams. She didn’t feel like investing, but Carsten Maschmeyer and Ralf Dümmel took care of it. “You are exactly my prey scheme,” revealed Maschmeyer: “Authentic founder personality, real innovation and real problem solver.” For this he took a 40 percent stake from the duo. The two-wheeler love stops when it comes to money.
stareditor Jan Sägert tried out the saddle joint. You can read the practical test here.
Green deal of the week
Scary numbers: 1 kilo of shrimp means 20 kilos of bycatch. So, among other things, painfully dead dolphins and seals. Added to this is the general overfishing of the seas. The inventors calculated that 93 percent of all commercially caught fish are endangered Happy Ocean Shrimp before, two smart surfer dudes. Aquacultures are also not an alternative because of the “miserable circumstances”. So: vegan shrimps, made from algae extracts, soybeans and sea salt. The lions thought it was great. Dagmar Wöhrl: “That’s pretty crisp.” Judith Williams: “It tastes like shrimp.” Nico Rosberg also bit. The crux of the matter, however, was the high company valuation – the two fish lovers called up a proud three million euros with almost zero sales. Ralf Dümmel was out immediately (“The entrance fee is too high for me”), Rosberg and Wöhrl went together on the negotiating floor. There, the green founders proved to be energetic businessmen (“This is a huge market with huge growth”). A fight for every percentage point followed. In the end, everyone was reasonably happy with 14 instead of 10 percent.
The most hyped idea
A new dating app, yeah, this is what the world has been waiting for. The USP of chaanz: You only have five minutes to contact each other. After that, the “match” expires. This should allow those who want to mate to get into their hooves faster and smooch instead of chatting. At university parties and such. Carsten Maschmeyer was immediately in a business mood. He wanted this digital deal so much that he even took the stage and pitched to Georg Kofler: “Now I’m asking you, dear fellow lion, would you take part?” South Tyrol gave the green light. Two grandpas are now organizing youth dating.
applause and out
“Rethinking fashion” always sounds good. Also the concept of WoollaaThe fact that an online knitting machine only knits when something is ordered fits in perfectly with the times. But only 800 scarves and baby blankets sold in four years? Georg Kofler thought that was a “puny performance” and asked the founding couple: “Where does your entrepreneurial heart beat?” The answer: “We let it run on the side.” The bread job as a designer was simply safer and more important. A no-go for Carsten Maschmeyer: “If you don’t believe in your product 100 percent yourself, how am I supposed to believe in it as an investor?” On the show’s second no-deal, the entrepreneurs themselves backed down. The startup shower plus, which would like to transform showering into a kind of standing brine bath, the range between offer and counter-offer was too great. Ralf Dümmel offered 20 percent, the founders only wanted to sell 10 percent of their company. “We shot the product onto the market organically,” and it should stay that way. Dümmel snapped: “We would have sold 50,000 of them in our network.”
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Jane Stock is a technology author, who has written for 24 Hours World. She writes about the latest in technology news and trends, and is always on the lookout for new and innovative ways to improve his audience’s experience.
