The company originally sold socks and began selling T-shirts in 2019.

Bombas launched in 2013, after founders Randy Goldberg and David Heath[1] learned that socks are the most requested clothing item in homeless shelters.

A year later, the company raised $1 million in seed funding from friends and family.

[5] In 2016, the company was featured in Max Hechtman's 2016 documentary FIT Hives: Sustainability - The Secret to Survival, which featured an interview with Heath talking about the company's mission and that their emblem was decided to be a bee with a crown would be its emblem as a reference to the Queen bee being at the center of the hive when pollenating with other bees.

[11][12][13] Official Bombas Site Good Morning America feature