More than a decade later, founders Noah Dentzel and Brian Hahn continue to apply this philosophy to smartphone products, viewing the smartphone as the 21st-century equivalent of the sword — a tool anyone can wield to change the world.

Regardless of the product the Nomad team is working on, they always follow their core values: premium materials, durability and attention to detail.

Nomad, like many startups founded during the Apple-centric product boom, emerged from a Kickstarter project as an ultra-portable, feature-rich charging cable resembling a bank card — it was called the ChargeCard.