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Careismatic Brands
Careismatic Brands is a Los Angeles-based designer, manufacturer and distributor of medical apparel, footwear and accessories for the healthcare community. Founded in 1995 as Strategic Partners, Inc. with the flagship Cherokee Uniforms line, it has grown into a global leader whose portfolio - Cherokee, Dickies Medical, Med Couture, Healing Hands, Medelita, Infinity, Heartsoul, Scrubstar, Allheart, Silverts and more - serves healthcare professionals in more than 70 countries. The company estimates it accounts for roughly half of the U.S. medical apparel wholesale market. After a pandemic-driven revenue surge and subsequent debt load, Careismatic completed a Chapter 11 financial restructuring in June 2024, eliminating about $782 million in debt and emerging under new ownership led by Nexus Capital Management.
FIGS
FIGS is a direct-to-consumer healthcare apparel brand that reinvented the medical scrub. Founded in 2013 by Heather Hasson and Trina Spear, the Santa Monica company sells comfortable, technical scrubs, lab coats, footwear and lifestyle wear made from its proprietary FIONx fabric, sold almost entirely online to nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals. FIGS reached $631 million in revenue in 2025, serves roughly 2.9 million active customers, and trades on the NYSE under the ticker FIGS after a landmark 2021 IPO.
Work 'N Gear
Work 'N Gear is a U.S. specialty retailer of workwear, work footwear and healthcare apparel, based in Quincy, Massachusetts. For more than three decades it has outfitted blue-collar and medical workers with trusted brands like Carhartt, Dickies, Timberland PRO and Cherokee across a chain of brick-and-mortar stores in the Northeast and Midwest plus a growing e-commerce and B2B business. The company is also known for its 'Boot Trade' program, which redistributes thousands of pairs of gently used work boots to people in need each winter.
Moxie Scrubs
Moxie Scrubs is a Boston-area, direct-to-consumer medical apparel brand built for nurses, by nurses. Founded by Harvard alum Alicia Tulsee, the company designs fashionable, comfortable scrubs - each style named after a real, inspiring nurse - featuring a patent-pending comfort waistband and performance fabrics. Positioned as the first lifestyle consumer-goods brand for the nursing profession, Moxie has raised $2.4M in pre-seed funding and sells through its own site, its SMYS line, and Target.