Direct-to-consumer comfort apparel brand with a donation model
Bombas operates a digitally native apparel business built on Shopify, NetSuite, and Braze, with a one-for-one donation model at its core. The tech stack reveals a sales and marketing-first operation: heavy reliance on social channels (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest) paired with email/SMS orchestration (Braze, Attentive) and financial/inventory control (NetSuite, Looker). Active hiring leans marketing (5 roles), ops (4), and engineering (3), while projects show simultaneous expansion into wholesale distribution, physical retail, and backend reliability work — a company scaling across channels, not optimizing within one.
Notable leadership hires: Retail Director
Bombas sells comfort-focused apparel (primarily socks, with expanding product lines) directly to consumers online and increasingly through physical stores. The company was founded in 2013 on a mission to address homelessness: for every item sold, one is donated. The business operates in the United States with 51–200 employees based in New York. Current strategic priorities span three areas: deepening the DTC channel via e-commerce performance and marketing, launching wholesale and retail partnerships, and building the operational backbone (multi-node logistics, carrier management, system reliability) required to scale beyond DTC.
Bombas runs on Shopify for e-commerce, NetSuite for ERP/financials, Braze and Attentive for marketing automation, Looker and LookML for analytics, UPS for logistics, and social channels (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest) for customer acquisition.
Bombas is headquartered in New York, NY and hires exclusively in the United States. The company was founded in 2013 and remains privately held with 51–200 employees.
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