Dubai TV will become the new home of the global reality-TV hit series “Shark Tank”.
The original Shark Tank premiered in 2009 as the American franchise of the international format “Dragons’ Den”, a Japanese TV series. It focused on entrepreneurs making business presentations to a panel of five venture capitalists (investors in start-ups) called “sharks”, who decide whether to invest in their companies or not. The series has been a massive ratings success across the globe, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Structured Reality Program four times (2014–2017) in the first four years of that category’s existence. In 2012–13, it won Outstanding Reality Program.
Upcoming on the new season of the show, the featured sharks will include Faisal Juma Belhoul, Founder and Chairman of Ithmar Capital Partners, Amira Sajwani, Founder and CEO of Prypco, Elie Khoury, CEO and Chairman at Vivium Holding, Noor Sweid, CEO at Global Ventures and Yousef Hamad, Managing Partner at BECO Capital – All mainstays of the UAE’s venture capital and business landscape.
The upcoming season of Shark Tank Dubai is slated to premiere on Dubai TV in mid-December 2023, and will run its course through to Q2-2024.
