Each pitch begins with the entrepreneur specifying the amount they are seeking as an investment and the percentage of their business that they are offering in exchange.

Entrepreneurs generally describe their business and provide financial details in respect of their costs, sales, and profit margins.

The skeptic community criticized a twelfth-season episode of Dragons' Den for its handling of a wellness company claiming to be able to improve neurological function from a distance.

The founders, a golf coach and a chiropractor, claimed that the operating principle of the clips was quantum entanglement.

After the taping of the episode, the agreement fell apart in due diligence and Health Canada ruled that three NeuroReset products must be removed from sale.

Two spinoff shows featuring Dragons on their own have been created, Redemption Inc. with Kevin O'Leary, and, The Big Decision with Arlene Dickinson & Jim Treliving.