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Prospective customers find us through a variety of channels including our website, partners, and brand advocates. Its filing states: “We have a highly efficient go-to-market model that is built on a self-serve selling motion. The company has relatively has low sales and marketing costs. Backblaze also cites on-premises offerings from Dell EMC and NetApp as competition.īackblaze revenue and profit/loss numbers from the S1 filing. Its main competition comes from the big three CSPs: Amazon, Azure and Google. There are two main products: B2 Cloud Storage and Computer Backup. A 2012 Budman blog says Backblaze took in $5 million from TMT Investments. Prior to issuing $10 million of convertible notes (which we also refer to as a Simple Agreement for Future Equity agreement (SAFE)) in a private financing round in August 2021, we had raised less than $3 million in outside equity since our founding in 2007.” The filing states: “Our operations have historically been efficient with limited outside investment.
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Consequently its funding events have been sparse: $300K in 2009, a $5 million A-round in 2012, and a $2 million event in 2020 plus a $10 million convertible note round in August this year. The company was incorporated in 2007 and decided not to go the venture capital route, preferring to bootstrap its operations. This solidarity helped us build and sustain our culture through the first 14 years of our evolution.” That gives an insight into the somewhat unique company culture at Backblaze. Developers will be able to access it through an API and command-line interface, but the service will also offer a web interface for less technical users.Backblaze’s filing also says the founders “formed a salary tontine where, until the public offering is finalised, a core group of the original founders and some other very early employees agreed to make the same salary.
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Backblaze B2 will offer a free tier (up to 10GB storage, 1GB/day of outbound traffic and unlimited inbound bandwidth). The company expects that users will use Backblaze B2 to store images, videos and data sets, for example. Given Backblaze’s low prices, you could now store an extra copy of your data for about 15 percent of the price you’d pay on Amazon’s cloud storage service. Maybe you want to store your data in a number of different locations and services, but if you did that on AWS, you would spend twice as much as you do today. The price of Backblaze’s service is half the price of Amazon Glacier, AWS’s very slow cold storage service, and only costs about a fourth of Amazon’s regular S3 service. Backblaze offers low-cost Amazon S3 rivalīackblaze, the company known for its consumer and enterprise backup service, is taking a step in a slightly different direction by announcing Backblaze B2, a competitively priced cloud storage service that competes with the likes of Amazon S3 and the cloud storage services that are part of Microsoft Azure and Google’s Cloud Platform.
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Originally a spinoff from the parent company of virtualization giant Parallels, Acronis initially made its name in data recovery and backup but has over time, and to better differentiate itself from competitors like Commvault, Veeam and Barracuda (among others), it has expanded to provide an all-in-one package of services to include continuous data protection, patch management, anti-malware protection and more.Ģ015.

Acronis raises $250M to double down on cyber protection servicesĪs cybersecurity continues to grow in profile amid an increasingly complex and dangerous landscape of malicious activity, a cyber security vendor that specializes in “all-in-one” services covering the many aspects of security IT Acronis has raised $250 million.
