Backblaze gives businesses the freedom to innovate without limits by removing the barriers of lock-in, complexity, and cost. Our high-performance cloud object storage accelerates AI workflows, powers data-heavy applications, streamlines media management, and protects critical data. As an award-winning independent cloud, we provide unparalleled levels of interoperability that enable over 500,000 of our customers to reach and serve hundreds of millions of end users in 175 countries around the world.
Founded in 2007, we scaled with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we made an initial public offering on the Nasdaq under the ticker BLZE. Today, Backblaze manages over five quintillion bytes of data storage under management. Our mission is to make customers unstoppable by solving their toughest data storage challenges through engineered efficiency, S3-compatible APIs, free egress, and transparent pricing that delivers enterprise-grade performance at one-fifth the cost of traditional hyperscalers.
