“The Lion’s Den”: Hard negotiations and emotional lions

“The Lion’s Den”
Tough negotiations and emotional lions

The fifth episode of “Die Höhle der Löwen” (Mondays, 8:15 p.m., VOX, also on RTL+) makes it exciting: An emotional Nico Rosberg (36), a negotiation thriller with a new dimension, a rousing mother-daughter duo and a match at the end.

Two enthusiastic surfers and divers want to save the oceans and their inhabitants with vegan seafood. Julian Hallett (32) and Robin Drummond (28) started with the shrimp, consisting of algae extracts, soybeans and sea salt. In the future, tuna and salmon will also be produced in this way. The two friends want 300,000 euros for ten percent of “Happy Ocean Food”. The tasting is a complete success, all lions are enthusiastic: “How did you manage that?” Nils Glagau (46) is amazed.

Negotiation thriller

Then the thriller begins: he offers his collaboration with Judith Williams (50), just like Dagmar Wöhrl (67) with Rosberg. But both teams of two want 20 percent. The boys gamble high, only want to give twelve percent. Glagau and Williams are out. Rosberg drops to 16 percent, reminding the founders: “You don’t have anything yet, no sales, zero.” But they stay with their twelve percent. Then Williams and Glagau get back in – this time individually. “It’s never happened before,” marvels Ralf Dümmel (55) from the edge. After going back and forth and getting out and back in, pleading requests and looks from Wöhrl, Rosberg, Wöhrl and the founders finally agree on 14 percent.

Next it’s all about the sea again – in the shower. Shower+ is a shower application that brings sea salt to the shower water and provides relief for people with skin diseases. Neurodermatitis patient René Sackel (39) came up with the idea during a rehabilitation stay, where salt applications relieved his symptoms. Since he didn’t have a bathtub at home, he developed the device for the salt shower with Benedikt Linne (29) and Björn Bourdin (45). Rosberg, who is struggling with neurodermatitis himself, is particularly impressed. Together with Dümmel, he wants to make an offer, but changes his mind at the last minute: “I’m going out, I’m getting emotional again, I’m just going because that’s my thing…”, says Rosberg, visibly at odds. Wöhrl and Dümmel offer the requested money, but demand 20 percent. The founders consult and surprisingly reject the offer without a counter offer. “We agreed beforehand that we would not deviate,” explains René. “As an entrepreneur, you sometimes have to say no,” said Georg Kofler (65) with awe.

“My bottom feeling is great!”

Iris-Sabine Langstädtler (58) is a keen horsewoman and runs a bicycle shop in Bremen. Together with her daughter Carmen (31), she presents her business idea: a bicycle saddle that turns the bike into a horse. Your Freibeik saddle joint can move all around, should take the rigidity out of the saddle and adapt to the movements of the bicycle. Everyone is impressed that the thrilling inventor has already been awarded gold at a well-known inventors’ fair. “Well, my bottom feeling is great!” praises Williams, but is afraid of the cutter and is therefore out. Dümmel and Carsten Maschmeyer (62) offer 190,000 euros for 40 percent. Mother and daughter go back briefly to the obligatory meeting with the family, but have actually already decided: “They’re already cold the champagne!” Maschmeyer analyzes the euphoric mood. And he’s right: “We’ll do it!” Iris announces, beaming with joy.

The designer couple Friederike (48) and Florian Pfeffer (51) explains to the lions that 40 percent of the clothes they produce are never sold or worn. Her solution: “We want to get out of this vicious circle with Woollaa. We sell first and then produce.” Your online knitting machine only produces the scarves or baby blankets customized by the customer when the order is placed. In four years, the couple has sold 800 knitted pieces. “I think the numbers are clear that maybe it’s not quite as accepted,” explains Glagau and says goodbye. Just like Dümmel, Maschmeyer, Williams and Kofler. So the best part of the pitch remains the creative knitted scarves that drape over the shoulders to form the faces of lions.

Maschmeyer loses his heart

Finally something for the heart: Marwin Grundel (25), Jakob Hubloher (25) and Nino Reiter (38) want to match singles. Your app Chaanz is a Tinder with time pressure and should be used primarily at festivals or events – without weeks of writing back and forth. “It’s about promoting offline meetings again,” the boys explain. The singles have five minutes to write a cover letter if they are shown a possible date partner nearby. “Our app is not used at home on the couch, but situationally,” the founders explain the principle. Hence the nickname “The app for going out”. Maschmeyer thinks that the boys urgently need women in the team, but he is still on fire. The boys want 125,000 euros for 30 percent. Maschmeyer jumps up: “I wouldn’t want to do it alone. I need a co-investor!” He courts both Kofler and the founders, who are said to give the two a whopping 49 percent of their company for 200,000 euros. In the end he convinced everyone – both the three founders and Kofler. It’s a match!

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