“The Lion’s Den”: First father-daughter team inspires lions

“The Lions’ Den”
The first father-daughter team inspires lions

According to Carsten Maschmeyer (62), the first father-daughter team and the youngest founding duo: The fifth episode of the tenth season of “Die Höhle der Löwen” has a few superlatives to offer. One start-up also overwhelms its cards, another divides investors like hardly any before.

The first candidates have known each other for 36 years. Romy Lindenberg (36) and her “always well-shaven father” Armin Lutz Seidel (64). Since classic wet razors consist of several materials, they cannot be recycled separately. So father Seidel invented an interchangeable head for razors that works without plastic. The duo wants 220,000 euros from the lions for their “Shavent”, for which they offer a low 8 percent of the company shares for DHDL standards. According to Carsten Maschmeyer, it will not only be the first father-daughter pair in the history of “Die Höhle der Löwen”, but also the couple Judith Williams (50) and Nico Rosberg (36) for the first time. Williams offers its cosmetics expertise, Rosberg its online power. The two team up, but would like 10 percent per lion. Ralf Dümmel (54) wants to bring the razor to the drugstores of the republic, he would only take 15 percent. The father-daughter team manages to push Williams-Rosberg to 7.5 percent. Rosberg cheers like after a victory in Formula 1.

Lion child inspires old lions

With the name “Löwenkind” Simone Hilble (34) makes herself popular with investors. In order to break the last resistance of the lions, the founder also brings a friend’s baby onto the stage. It has a “lion child” body in which medicinal herb pads can be used to help you fall asleep or with a cold. There are scarves with herbs for older children and adults. The mixtures were created by her naturopath father. Another family duo, even if dad doesn’t come on stage. Hilble would like to have 130,000 euros for 20 percent. Dagmar Wöhrl (67) and Nils Glagau (45) are interested in an investment. Not as a duo, but as competitors. Both demand 25 percent. Hilble is on the phone with her father. Wöhrl has a bad feeling: “Whenever the candidates make a phone call, I lose because the men direct them to men”. But this time she’s wrong. The lion child walks with the lioness.

As in the last episode with Moovya, “Fun with Balls MultiBall” are now trying to combine sport with digital games. However, you have not developed an app for this, but a kind of virtual screen, a 3×4 meter “touch wall”. Hobby or professional athletes can throw balls at bombs on it. The console, which detects the movements of the players, can be projected onto any wall. The founder Markos Aristides Kern (39) wants 1.6 million for 10 percent. But how does he come to a valuation of 16 million euros? For Maschmeyer, the numbers don’t fit together. He thinks the project is “not financially viable”. The other lions agree. Maschmeyer: “In poker you call it overstimulating”.

Baby founders and outraged investors

Now back to the superlatives. Davis Zöllner (17) and Berkay Cankiran (18) are the youngest founding duo of the show. They invented “taag”, a kind of digital business card. Using NFC technology, which cell phones use to transmit data, you should now also be able to share your profile. The Junglions are happy to sell company shares, they offer 30 percent for 50,000 euros. Sustainability is always possible, which is why the founders also advertise saving paper. Not a major environmental factor for Judith Williams, as you have to stick a plastic chip on your smartphone. The other lions get out too. Except for Maschmeyer. He would like to be a “founding father” and offers himself as a mentor. More out of pity, one thinks.

The next project is called “Blue Green”. “I see red there,” says Maschmeyer. Again something with sustainability. The founders are again a kind of father-child duo: Karsten Gaedke (47) is the partner of Alexander Schulze’s mother (39). Their promise: “With our invention you shower for half”. Schulze got the idea because his extensive shower orgies consumed too much water, but he also didn’t want to do without it. The water jet is narrowed, but the added air keeps the pressure constant. It should be 100,000 euros for 20 percent of the company’s shares. The previous sales since 2017 are “a little bit” for Georg Kofler (64), but they only sold 550 pieces for the fact that “Blue Green” wants to revolutionize showering. Maschmeyer is also appalled that they arrive with such low numbers. The two of them just sold their product on the side. Maschmeyer, honestly outraged: “What kind of a founder attitude is that?”. He doesn’t want to “save their bum”. Kofler also considers the offer to be a “moderate impertinence”, the performance of the two as “lukewarm”. But Ralf Dümmel saves their bum. The presentation doesn’t interest him, he thinks the product is “sensational”. But he would like 30 percent. Wöhrl would also be there, with 25 percent. Dümmel wins the bid.

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