Blinds in a Box is the idea of three entrepreneurs from North London. They were first to face the Dragons on last night’s show.

Simeone Salik, interior designer Janice Dalton and businessman Dominic Lawrence were looking for a £40,000 investment in Blinds in a Box, a temporary paper blinds solution that requires no tools for fixing, for 15% of the business.

If you’re moving, redecorating or even just waiting for their curtains could find that Blinds in a Box can give them instant privacy and security.

Blinds in a Box is sold exclusively on the internet at the moment, and a box of six costs £45 to buy. They are easy to fix by simply peeling off a slip and sticking to a window. Pegs are used to control the opening and closing of the blinds.

To purchase Blinds in a Box and for more information, click here 

When young inventor Christian Lane walked into the Dragon’s Den pitching for £80,000 in return for 50% of his patented Foldio, a crease-avoiding bendy folder, he couldn’t have expected to do so well.

Foldio was very well received by the Dragons, who saw it an an innovative solution to creases for people like art students and architects. Theo declared himself ‘totally blown away’ by the Foldio and the overall attitude of Christian Lane.

In fact Theo Paphitis liked the Foldio so much that he decided to make an offer which Christian accepted, and he is now selling the Foldio range in his stationery company Ryman’s.  

To view the entire Foldio range, click here

Guy Portelli walked into the Dragon’s Den asking for £70,000 for a 25% stake in his sculptures. Some of his pop-icon sculptures include Grace Jones, Any Winehouse, John Lennon and John Lee Hooker.

With the money he planned to spend £25,000 on the exhibition, renting a gallery in London. By confessing that a gallery would take 50% of his commission, the Dragons became aware that the deal was not quite as good as first thought. Deborah Meaden was concerned that cutting out the gallery meant cutting out all the marketing which would help to draw crowds to the sculptures.

Guy Portelli ended up getting an £80,000 investment from Theo Paphitis, Peter Jones and James Caan, more than he originally asked for.

For more information about Guy Portelli’s sculptures and the Pop Icons range, visit his website by clicking here

Confident pitchers and inventors Geoff Hill and Rob Hill walked into the Dragon’s Den looking for a £100,000 investment for their ladder-box, a patented tool box that attaches onto most types of ladders.

An optional extra is a lidded paint roller accessory, which keeps the paint fresh and makes painting using ladders much more convenient.  

The ladderbox retails at £19.95 and is available to buy from the LadderBox website.

For more information and to buy a ladderbox, click here 

Firebox are selling the kind of Toastabags seen on Dragons Den recently. Guy Unwin, inventor of the Toastabag, went into the Dragons Den with his partner Caroline Kavanagh looking for a £200,000 investment in their range of kitchen products.

At the end of the pitch, James Caan offered them the full money for a 40% stake in their business, Planit Products, who produce the Toastabags alongside various other kitchenware.

What are Toastabags?

They are a5-sized reusable bags which you can use to heat up almost anything in your toaster. Simply fill the bag with something like a sandwich, or can of beans (minus the can of course), pop the bag in your toaster and hey presto!

Toastabags cost £6.95 for a bag of two. To buy, Click Here