Our Story

The story of Gemnomads started on a sultry mid afternoon, in the year 1997, in the depths of West African jungles. Our Founder, Rajeev Nighojkar was busy as the young Project Manager of one of largest and most modern cotton ginning plant being put up with latest American technology. He had spent several years on the project, shuttling between West Africa and USA, organizing the local African manpower, American technology geeks, Asian contractors and negotiating with large Chinese factories who would import the cotton from the gin and turn it into blue jeans fabric for ultimate export of garments to USA. A local miner came to meet Rajeev and offered a large chunk of gemstone to him, in exchange for a bottle of Star Beer, the popular local beer brand. Offering the beer for free, Rajeev was reluctant to take the stone, as he had no idea what its real value was.

It was only months later, that the forgotten gemstone was taken to India and shown to a diamond trader in Mumbai. Rajeev was astonished to know that this was one of the rare gemstones "Aquamarine" and its size and clarity could easily place the real value at several thousand ‘beer bottles’! The incident caught Rajeev's inborn entrepreneurial interest, and rest is history.

The brand, headquartered in Austin Texas is spearheaded by Rajeev’s daughter Urvashi Nighojkar and takes inspirations from nature and extraordinary wonders of the world which manifest into-of-a kind pieces, adorned by our beloved customers. We collaborate with upcoming, exceptionally talented jewelry designers to create unique on-trend pieces suited to your taste.

Magnificent gemstones traveled from across the globe are set into exquisite designs with each piece crafted in-house in our socially compliant production units to ensure highest standards of quality. Since we manufacture our own jewelry, we're able to offer high quality fine jewelry pieces at accessible prices.

We believe in giving back to the society through donations from sales of our charitable products. We also support local mining communities in several parts of the world through sustainable sourcing of genuine gemstones.