Backblaze
Backup and cloud hosting company
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Backblaze, Inc. is an American cloud storage and data backup company based in San Mateo, California. It was founded in 2007 by Gleb Budman and others.[3] Its services are intended for both business and personal markets.
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| Company type | Public |
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| Nasdaq: BLZE | |
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| Founded | April 20, 2007 |
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| Headquarters | San Mateo, California, U.S. |
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| Revenue |  US$102 million (2023) |
 US$−58 million (2023) | |
| US$−60 million (2023) | |
| Total assets | US$132 million (2023) |
| Total equity | US$44.9 million (2023) |
Number of employees | 381 (December 2023) |
| Website | www |
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History
Backblaze was established in 2007 in San Mateo, California.[4] In 2008, the company released online backup services to support PCs running Apple's macOS and Microsoft's Windows.[4]
In October 2021, Backblaze filed to go public on the Nasdaq under the symbol BLZE.[4] In November, the company launched its public IPO.[5]
Backblaze and Catalogic, a data protection vendor, announced their partnership in March 2022.[6]
Since 2013, Backblaze has reported quarterly reliability statistics for its data center hard drives, showing annual failure rates for each model.[7][8]
On November 28, 2025, Backblaze announced a strategic integration with Shareio, a new platform enabling creators to monetize and protect their digital content. [9]
Backblaze has six data centers; four in the United States, one in Canada and one in Europe.[10][11]
As of April 2025, Backbaze has been reporting losses every quarter ever since going public in November 2021.[12]
Products
Backblaze's first product was its computer backup, offering users to back up their computer data continuously and automatically with a monthly subscription service.[13]
In September 2015, Backblaze launched a new product, B2 Cloud Storage. Being an infrastructure as a service (IaaS), it is targeted at software integration for different kinds of businesses.[14]
In May 2020, Backblaze released an Amazon S3-compatible API, allowing customers to use existing tools and applications with B2 Cloud Storage without rewriting them.[15] In May 2022, Backblaze released its cloud replication services, which allow customers to back up and store data in a location that is geographically separate from the data's primary location.[16][17]