CBC originally launched the Canadian television series Dragons' Den in 2006.
The Canadian adaptation brought the investment-pitch format to a Canadian audience, with entrepreneurs asking a panel of business figures for money in exchange for equity. The series premiered on CBC in 2006 and became one of the network’s recognisable reality and factual-entertainment programmes.
CBC stands for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada’s national public broadcaster. The Canadian series is related to the British Dragon's Den through the shared international format, but it is not a continuation of the British programme and has its own investors and production history.
The broadcaster is sometimes confused with CTV or Global, both major Canadian television networks. The original home of Dragons' Den Canada was CBC. The programme later became associated with Canadian entrepreneurs, deals and dragons rather than with the BBC’s UK panel.