Entrepreneurs pitching on the BBC’s Dragons’ Den can expect short shrift if they can’t — or won’t — share important details about their companies. Now, however, the tables have been turned on one of its panellists. Steven Bartlett’s investment firm has been accused of giving “opaque” and “mysterious” responses to prospective investors’ questions.
Flight Fund, the celebrity entrepreneur and podcaster’s investment business, was aiming to close a fund worth up to $150 million to back start-ups in April. Users of Seedrs, a crowdfunding platform, were offered a chance to join Bartlett, 31, on the firm’s “journey” as it sought to “become the best-performing private equity fund”. However, some Seedrs users who tried to work out what they were being sold claimed Flight Fund was