Bakku Backgrounds

Brian Woodman
Victoria, BC

The pitch

Brian Woodman from Victoria, BC, pitched Bakku Backgrounds in Season 13, Episode 8, asking the Dragons for $50K for 30% of the company.

Asked for$50K for 30%
Valuation$167Kimplied by the ask
OutcomeNo deal

Offers in the Den

Dragon	Offer	Result
Vincenzo Guzzo	Went out, felt design was too easy to copy and not a viable investment	Out
Jim Treliving	Went out, felt the business was too small	Out
Lane Merrifield	Went out, felt it was an emotional project rather than a scalable business	Out
Michele Romanow	Went out, concerned about lack of scale for her as an investor	Out
Manjit Minhas	Offered to show the product to Spin Master contacts for free but made no investment offer, calling it too early stage	Out

Brian Woodman, a mapping consultant from Victoria, British Columbia, pitched Bakku Backgrounds, asking for $50,000 for 30% of his company. The product is a foldable, freestanding background scenery or diorama for toys, sold exclusively on Amazon in four designs that are laminated and reversible with different images on each side. Sales to date totalled $6,200, with an average sale price of about $30 per unit and a landed cost of about $5 per unit.

Vincenzo Guzzo, Jim Treliving, Lane Merrifield, and Michele Romanow all went out, questioning whether there was a real scalable business behind the product and citing concerns about it being easy to copy or too small in scale. Manjit Minhas offered to introduce Brian Woodman to contacts at Spin Master for free but said the business was not yet at an investable stage, resulting in no deal.

Pitch details from CBC’s Dragons’ Den pitch page.