e-Commerce Safety Prescription Eyewear Gets Funding

"IrishAngels led a $1.3 million investment in Eyelation, a Tinley Park-based company that's bringing e-commerce to prescription safety glasses," says a post on Crains Chicago Business. "Factory workers input their prescriptions from onsite kiosks or a website, and Eyelation ships the glasses to them. The three-year-old company is headed by Brad Kirschner, whose family also has a traditional optometry practice. Eyelation customers include Honeywell. Dallas Venture Partners also participated in the funding." Read more.