Operation Take Two

Keneisha Charles, Aaliyah Charles, Ashley Ciardullo, and Theresa Schwab
Kelowna, BC

The pitch

Keneisha Charles, Aaliyah Charles, Ashley Ciardullo, and Theresa Schwab from Kelowna, BC, pitched Operation Take Two in Season 14, Episode 7, asking the Dragons for $30K for 25% of the company.

Asked for$30K for 25%
Valuation$120Kimplied by the ask
OutcomeDealwith Jim Treliving and Michele Romanow
Final deal$30K for 25%valued at $120K

Offers in the Den

Dragon	Offer	Result
Vincenzo Guzzo	No offer made	Out
Manjit Minhas	No offer made	Out
Jim Treliving and Michele Romanow	joint offer of $15,000 each for the full $30,000 ask at 25%	Accepted
Lane Merrifield	No offer made	Out
Arlene Dickinson	No offer made	Out

Keneisha Charles, Aaliyah Charles, Ashley Ciardullo, and Teresa Schwab, students from Kelowna, British Columbia, asked for $10,000 plus an additional $20,000 for 25% equity in Operation Take Two, a youth-led social enterprise that packs plastic recycling machinery into a repurposed shipping container to shred and mould recycled plastic into products such as flower pots and 3D printer filament. The team had already raised more than $40,000 through grants and donations and operates rent-free from a container at their school, keeping expenses low. The $10,000 requested was earmarked for expanding their product line with an extrusion and injection machine to make 3D printer filament and decorative tiles.

Jim Treliving proposed a joint venture with Michele Romanow, offering to split the full $30,000 ask between them for 25% equity, which the founders accepted. No other Dragons made offers.

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