Walking away intact from the Dragons’ Den with £120,000 proved more difficult for entrepreneur Ralf Klinnert than negotiating a course around his Funky Moves, an interactive fitness game with “intelligent” blinking lights aimed at sports teams as well as combating obesity in children. Neither task was intended to be easy – but in the end [...]

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A SCOTS-BASED engineer has scooped £120,000 from the Dragons’ Den for a game to tackle child obesity. Theo Paphitis and Peter Jones invested £60,000 each for a 50 per cent stake in Ralf Klinnert’s Funky Moves firm. They backed Ralf, who is originally from Germany, after giving him a two-hour grilling, part of which was [...]

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A Scottish company that failed to conquer television’s Dragons’ Den is looking to flourish in the real world – by handing over the reins to pupils in Scottish schools. The business partners behind Dunfermline-based Tree of Knowledge, which supplies motivational educational materials and training, have been deluged with e-mails, CVs and orders for their products [...]

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AN EDINBURGH entrepreneur will face a grilling tonight when he pitches his fat busting product on BBC’s Dragons Den. German-born Ralf Klinnert, 40, is seeking investment for his electronically controlled “Funky Cones”, aimed at encouraging youngsters to exercise and improve agility and fitness. The electronic engineer, who has lived in the Capital for 10 years, [...]

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Scottish company pitches for investment A Scots based entrepreneur is entering the Dragons’ Den to pitch for investment in his interactive fitness game. Ralf Klinnert founded Funky Moves in 2005 and is looking for s120,000 for 20 per cent of the business. The German, based at the Alba Innovation Centre in Livingston, West Lothian, hopes [...]

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