2014 · TV pitch
Would you have funded Kodiak Cakes?
Whole-grain pancake mix
A family business sells whole-grain pancake and waffle mixes. Sales are a few million dollars a year and growing in grocery stores.
- About $3.6 million in sales the year before
- Competing in a crowded grocery aisle
Show what happened
✅ Success
Kodiak Cakes Sales nearly doubled the next year, and in 2021 the private equity firm L Catterton bought a majority stake.
On the TV pitch show: No deal: the company declined the TV investors' terms.
Sources: Kodiak Cakes (Wikipedia)
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