# Nilay Patel

> Nilay Patel is co-founder of Backblaze. Backblaze B2 on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-27

Co-founder, Backblaze.

Nilay Patel was part of Backblaze's founding team and its vice president of sales until 2024, launching Backblaze Business Backup and its partner programmes. He left in 2011 to co-found Selligy, acquired by Veeva Systems in 2015, then returned. He was earlier the first European employee of Electric Cloud and MailFrontier.

## What Nilay builds

- [Backblaze B2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/backblaze-b2.md), graded A, 79.2/100, in File storage & sharing. Object storage at $6.95 a TB-month with the first 10 GB free, egress free up to three times what you store and $0.01 a GB after, and no charge for most API calls. Co-founder, Backblaze, researched 2026-10-26.

## Works with

- [Billy Ng](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/billy-ng/), Co-founder, Backblaze
- [Brian Wilson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brian-wilson/), Co-founder, Backblaze
- [Casey Jones](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/casey-jones/), Co-founder, Backblaze
- [Damon Uyeda](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/damon-uyeda/), Co-founder, Backblaze
- [Gleb Budman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gleb-budman/), Co-founder, Backblaze
- [Tim Nufire](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tim-nufire/), Co-founder, Backblaze

## Questions

### Who is Nilay Patel?

Nilay Patel was part of Backblaze's founding team and its vice president of sales until 2024, launching Backblaze Business Backup and its partner programmes. He left in 2011 to co-found Selligy, acquired by Veeva Systems in 2015, then returned. He was earlier the first European employee of Electric Cloud and MailFrontier.

### What does Backblaze make?

Anchor Terminal lists Backblaze B2 from Backblaze. Object storage at $6.95 a TB-month with the first 10 GB free, egress free up to three times what you store and $0.01 a GB after, and no charge for most API calls.

### How are Nilay's tools graded?

Backblaze B2 is graded A, 79.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.backblaze.com/company/about
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/glebbudman
- https://www.backblaze.com/
- https://www.backblaze.com/company/contact
- https://www.backblaze.com/help

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