Backblaze, Inc. (BLZE)

6.76 +0.09 (+1.35%) At close: 04:00PM EDT

Backblaze, Inc.

201 Baldwin Ave.
San Mateo, CA 94401
United States
650 352 3738
https://www.backblaze.com

Sector(s): Technology
Industry: Software - Infrastructure
Full-time employees: 381

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. Gleb Budman	Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman	534.9k	N/A	1975
Mr. Francis P. Patchel	Chief Financial Officer	474.9k	N/A	1958
Ms. Tina Cessna	Senior Vice President of Engineering	405.9k	N/A	1965
Mr. Tim Nufire	Co-Founder	N/A	N/A	1965
Mr. Brian Wilson	Co-Founder	429.87k	N/A	1968
Mr. Casey Jones	Co-Founder	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Hang Ng Kwok	Co-Founder	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Nilay Patel	Co-Founder & VP of Sales	N/A	N/A	N/A
Damon Uyeda	Co-Founder	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms. Anu Patil	Vice President of Revenue Strategy & Operations	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of 31 December 2023, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

Backblaze, Inc., a storage cloud platform, provides businesses and consumers cloud services to store, use, and protect data in the United States and internationally. The company offers cloud services through a web-scale software infrastructure built on commodity hardware. It also provides Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, which enables customers to store data, developers to build applications, and partners to expand their use cases. This service is offered as a consumption-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and serves use cases, such as public, hybrid, and multi-cloud data storage; application development and DevOps; content delivery and edge computing; security and ransomware protection; media management; backup, archive, and tape replacement; repository for analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning; and Internet of Things. In addition, the company offers Backblaze Computer Backup that automatically backs up data from laptops and desktops for businesses and individuals, which provides a subscription-based Software-as-a-Service and serves use cases, including computer backup, ransomware protection, theft and loss protection, and remote access. It serves the public cloud IaaS storage and Data-Protection-as-a-Service markets. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Corporate governance

Backblaze, Inc.’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 1 May 2024 is 8. The pillar scores are Audit: 10; Board: 8; Shareholder rights: 8; Compensation: 8.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.