Jenna Meek returns to Dragons’ Den as five businesses pitch dating app, campervan awnings and kids’ headphones

guest Dragon jenna meek sat alongside the regular panel on episode 5, bringing her REFY Beauty CEO title back to the den as a clutch of founders pitched products ranging from a phone-first dating app to modular headphones for children. The mix of businesses matters because several brought concrete traction—launch dates, factory openings and even a disclosed revenue figure—that shaped the judges’ responses.

Jenna Meek joins Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Steven Bartlett and Touker Suleyman

Jenna Meek returned as a guest Dragon for the episode, joining Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Steven Bartlett and Touker Suleyman on the panel. Meek is listed in the programme as REFY Beauty’s CEO and co-founder and had previously made a fiery debut earlier in the series. The episode is the fifth of the latest run and aired on February 26, 2026.

hati dating app: five-minute calls and £48 revenue

Zaahirah Adam pitched hati, a dating app she launched in 2025 after a personal experience of being ghosted and concerns about its impact on her mental health. The app bans text messaging and instead requires a five-minute phone call between matches to establish an immediate connection. Users build voice and video profiles and must be verified and vouched for by three friends to reduce catfishing; the app was cited in the den as having £48 in revenue. Steven Bartlett publicly backed hati during the episode.

Glawning’s cotton bell-tent awnings from James and Sarah Martin

A husband-and-wife team, James and Sarah Martin, presented Glawning, a family business founded in 2013 that sells luxury cotton bell-tent awnings for campervans. The Martins emphasized all-season design, durability, waterproofing and flame-retardant materials, and said their tents can fast-pitch in around 10 minutes. The business has expanded from driveaway awnings to standalone tents and now offers car awnings, wood burners and tarps.

Club Cultured’s plant-based ferments and Hackney tempeh factory

Three school friends—James, Harry and Connor—pitched Club Cultured, a London-based fermented-food company founded in 2018 that promotes what the founders call a “fermentation revolution. ” Connor is described as a former Ritz Hotel and Michelin-star trained chef. The business produces plant-based, gut-focused items such as tempeh, kimchi, mooli and pickles, opened London’s first tempeh factory in Hackney in 2020, and has supplied ferments to national food brands including Wagamama.

Kibu headphones developed by Morrama and Batch. Works

Kibu is a collaboration between London-based design consultancy Morrama and 3D printing specialist Batch. Works that targets children aged 5–11. The headphones are modular and built without screws or glue so they can be taken apart, repaired and recycled, and include a STEM angle intended to teach kids hands-on skills in building and assembling technology.

What the den’s mix of pitches reveals

The episode gathered a broad cross-section of consumer-focused businesses: a tech-first dating service, a reimagined camping product, food manufacturing and repairable children’s hardware. That range produced clear cause-and-effect moments on screen—Adam’s experience with ghosting led her to build hati, which in turn shaped the app’s five-minute call rule and friend verification; the Club Cultured founders’ hospitality and chef backgrounds led them to open a tempeh factory in Hackney in 2020; and Morrama’s design approach drove Kibu’s screwless, repairable construction. What makes this notable is how each founder paired an origin story or technical detail with a measurable milestone—launch years, a factory opening and a disclosed revenue figure—that the Dragons could evaluate in commercial terms.

Also present in the programme’s guest roster this series are other high-profile guest Dragons who have appeared: Gary Neville, Trinny Woodall, Tinie Tempah and Emma Grede. The episode left the panel to weigh product durability and market saturation against the early traction each pitch brought into the room.