---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-22-016572"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BLZE"
cik: "0001462056"
company_name: "Backblaze, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-06-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T03:29:49.110442+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Backblaze stockholders elect Nelson and Fry as Class I directors; auditor ratified

## Summary
- Annual meeting held June 2, 2022; over 70% of combined voting power represented quorum.
- Barbara Nelson elected with 135,389,470 votes for, 336,092 withheld; Earl E. Fry with 135,670,518 for, 55,044 withheld.
- Ratification of BDO USA as independent auditor received 138,469,180 votes for, 57,840 against, 45,305 abstained.
- Class A common stock held 7,993,565 shares; Class B held 13,057,876 shares (one vote per A, ten per B).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-22-016572
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BLZE
- cik: 0001462056
- company_name: Backblaze, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-06-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1462056/000162828022016572/0001628280-22-016572-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1462056/000162828022016572/blze-20220602.htm

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