DHDL deal with Georg Kofler falls through for this start-up

Tom Schmidtgen Tom Schmidtgen | 26.05.2021

The lion closed a deal with the Berlin start-up on the show. After the show, no deal was made.

The deal from the show "Die Höhle der Löwen" between investor Georg Kofler and The Makery has fallen through. The lion wanted to give the founders 250,000 euros. After long negotiations, he would have received 21 percent of the company shares. But already in the broadcast both sides were visibly dissatisfied with the result.

The Makery sells workshops via its platform. Currently, for example, the courses "Become a DJ in Marzahn" can be booked for 99 euros or "Kitchen Cosmetics - Online" for 29 euros. The Berlin start-up earns a commission on the placement of over 500 courses. The Makery was founded in 2017.

Founder Jasper Kolb offered 15 percent of the fimen shares for 250,000 euros. The lions praised the start-up, but only Kofler was interested. He haggled for every percent, in the end he got 21 percent. But none of the participants seemed really happy during the show. After the show, no contract was signed. "Jasper [Kolb] reacted prudently, consistently and flexibly despite the enormous impact on the event sector by adapting his business model to the situation," Kofler told Gründerszene after the show. "Unfortunately, this necessary deviation from the original investment idea also ended our journey together."

Due to the pandemic, The Makery switched to online courses, and many face-to-face courses had to be cancelled. "After several rounds of conversations in the weeks that followed, we came to the conclusion that we weren't ideally made for each other," Kolb tells Gründerszene. "And since we had to pivot and adjust our entire business model at that time, we wanted to focus solely on operations." The business has rebounded, he says. The Makery is now working on its first round of funding, he said.


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