{"id":397879,"date":"2026-01-09T07:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/397879\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:38:08","slug":"from-itch-to-pitch-lice-squad-founder-on-dragons-den-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/397879\/","title":{"rendered":"From itch to pitch: Lice Squad founder on Dragons&#8217; Den tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn Mucci will appear on popular television show Thursday at 8 p.m., looking for a partner to invest<\/p>\n<p>A well-known Barrie entrepreneur is entering the Dragons&#8217; Den with an appearance on the popular television show tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Dawn Mucci, founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.licesquad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lice Squad<\/a>, recently took part in a taping of CBC\u2019s Dragons&#8217; Den, with the show now in its 20th season.<\/p>\n<p>The episode is scheduled to air Thursday, Jan. 8 at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this episode, a founder from Barrie\u00a0looks for a Dragon partner to scratch the investment itch,\u201d says the show on its website promoting the appearance by Mucci.<\/p>\n<p>Lice Squad offers lice removal services, products and diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>The company is now 36 franchises strong with locations across Canada, utilizing over 250 service providers, according to their website.<\/p>\n<p>Mucci has been operating the business for around 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>She won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrietoday.com\/local-news\/women-shine-and-inspire-at-2019-women-in-business-awards-1310853\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woman of the Year (Entrepreneur)<\/a> award from the Barrie Chamber of Commerce in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dawn Mucci will appear on popular television show Thursday at 8 p.m., looking for a partner to invest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,168140,75,348],"class_list":["post-397879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dawn-muccicbc-dragons-denlice-squad","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}