Who became the youngest investor ever to join the Dragon's Den panel in 2022?

Steven Bartlett became the youngest investor ever to join the Dragon's Den panel in 2022.

Bartlett joined the British programme for its 20th series, broadcast in 2022. Born in 1992, he was 29 when he became a Dragon. He had co-founded Social Chain, a social-media marketing agency, and later became known for The Diary of a CEO podcast and other media work.

His appointment marked a generational change for the panel, adding an investor whose career was rooted in digital media, online communities, and technology businesses. The “youngest ever” description concerns the age at which a person joined the panel, not the age of the contestants or the youngest entrepreneur to pitch. Steven Bartlett is also distinct from Tej Lalvani, who joined five years earlier, and from Peter Jones, one of the long-serving Dragons.