We built Nomia because file loss is avoidable
Nomia was founded in 2018 in Chicago by Theo Kasprzak and Mara Lindqvist, who had watched a small media agency lose three years of client project files when a large provider retired a storage tier with inadequate migration notice.
Both had worked in distributed infrastructure and believed the market deserved a file storage product built around operational teams: genuine redundancy as a baseline, pricing that didn't require a monthly spreadsheet, and a company that treated reliability as the product rather than a fine-print footnote.
The name comes from "Nomia," the Greek personification of law and good order. It reflects the founding principle that storage infrastructure should be governed by rules that don't change without notice or change on the customer's schedule.
"Our mission is to make durable, redundant file storage accessible to every team that depends on it, not just those with dedicated infrastructure engineers."
Theo Kasprzak, Co-founder & CEO
Founded in Chicago, IL
Active organizations on the platform
Data under management across three zones
Uptime SLA, guaranteed in writing
The team
Thirty people across engineering, product, security, and customer success.
Led infrastructure products at Brightpath Systems for six years before co-founding Nomia. Oversees product direction, company operations, and customer relationships.
Designed distributed file systems at a compute infrastructure startup before Nomia. Authored the original specification for the three-zone write engine and reviews every major architecture change.
Interested in joining? View open roles.
What guides every decision we make
Four principles that have not changed since the company was founded in 2018.
Durability before features
We hold back capabilities we are not fully confident in. A feature that introduces risk at the storage layer does not ship, regardless of roadmap pressure. Data integrity is not a trade-off.
Honest pricing
One monthly rate covers storage, bandwidth, and redundancy. No egress fees, no per-request charges, no bills that require a spreadsheet to interpret. What the pricing page shows is what you pay.
Long-term thinking
We build as if the teams using Nomia today will still be here in ten years. That means backward compatibility, stable API contracts, and decisions that prioritize durability over short-term growth.
Transparency by default
Security audit reports are available to customers on request. Incidents get public postmortems. The status page reflects what is actually happening, not a communication team's interpretation of it.
How we got here
Company incorporated in Chicago
Theo and Mara started Nomia after a client they were advising lost three years of project files when a large provider retired a storage tier with inadequate migration notice. The first internal build of the three-zone write engine was complete before year end.
Private beta with 14 studios
Fourteen design studios and video production teams joined the private beta. The team reached 1 PB under management and ran the first full durability test: intentionally taking a zone offline and confirming zero customer-facing impact.
Public launch
Nomia opened to the public in January. Five hundred paying teams signed up within the first six months. The pricing model remained unchanged from the beta: one monthly rate, no egress fees.
Enterprise tier and first security audit
The enterprise tier launched with custom SLAs, dedicated storage pools, and SSO. An independent security firm completed the first full audit of Nomia's infrastructure and key management system. Total data under management passed 10 PB.
REST API v2 and team workspaces
REST API v2 shipped with expanded SDK coverage and webhook delivery guarantees. Team workspaces with granular role management became available on all Professional accounts. Nomia crossed 4,000 active organizations.