Venture funds help brighten future for sun-protection firm

"Barrow is selling shirts, hats, swimwear and other products, such as sunglasses and sunscreen, designed to protect people from the damaging effects of the sun. Perhaps because he and his partners have played the venture-capital game before, his company is one of the 14 Minnesota firms that got $70 million from venture capitalists in the second quarter of 2005."

[Star Tribune]