Company: BLND
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001855747-25-000024
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Company: Blend Labs, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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12 months prior to the date of the submission of the recommendation, so long as such recommendations and nominations comply with our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws, all applicable company policies and all applicable laws, rules and regulations, including those promulgated by the SEC. Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will evaluate such recommendations in accordance with its charter, our bylaws and corporate governance guidelines and the director nominee criteria described above.

Eligible stockholders that want to recommend a candidate to our board of directors should direct the recommendation in writing by letter to our Legal Team at Blend Labs, Inc., 7250 Redwood Blvd., Suite 300, Novato, California 94945, Attention: Legal Team. Such recommendation must include the candidate’s name, home and business contact information, detailed biographical data, relevant qualifications, a signed letter from the candidate confirming willingness to serve, information regarding any relationships between the candidate and us and evidence of the recommending stockholder’s ownership of our capital stock. Such recommendation must also include a statement from the recommending stockholder in support of the candidate. Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee has discretion to decide which individuals to recommend for nomination as directors.

Under our amended and restated bylaws, stockholders may also directly nominate persons for our board of directors. Any

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nomination must comply with the requirements set forth in our amended and restated bylaws and the rules and regulations of the SEC and should be sent in writing to our corporate secretary at the address above. To be timely for our 2026 annual meeting of stockholders, nominations must be received by our corporate secretary observing the deadlines discussed below under “Other Matters-Stockholder Proposals or Director Nominations for 2026 Annual Meeting.”

#### Communications with the Board of Directors
Stockholders and other interested parties wishing to communicate directly with our non-management directors, may do so by writing and sending the correspondence to our Head of Legal and People or Legal Team by mail to our principal executive offices at Blend Labs, Inc., 7250 Redwood Blvd., Suite 300, Novato, California 94945. Our Head of Legal and People or Legal Team, in consultation with appropriate directors as necessary, will review all incoming communications and screen for communications that (1) are solicitations for products and services, (2) relate to matters of a personal nature not relevant for our stockholders to act on or for our board of directors to consider and (3