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Compress rich ecommerce media while preserving visual quality, then price by assets and delivery volume.
~200 customers · ~25 employees (founder/interviewer estimates)
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SpeedSize uses AI to compress ecommerce images and video while preserving their original visual detail, helping rich product pages load efficiently. Co-founder and CTO Vlad Malanin said the company serves about 200 customers, mostly fashion and apparel brands, and prices annual contracts by data transferred and original asset volume. He described lower-end five-figure average contracts, with smaller accounts around $10,000 to $20,000, mid-market deals around $50,000 to $100,000, and several customers above $100,000. The largest account was in the lower seven figures. The interview framed current ARR at roughly $6 million, based on customer count and average contract value; the founder agreed the estimate was roughly right but did not provide exact figures. SpeedSize reported $400,000 in first-year sales in 2022, about $1.5 million in 2023, around $3 million in 2024, and approximately $6 million at interview time. The company raised about $5 million, reduced its team from roughly 50 to 20–25, and shifted growth emphasis toward cloud and agency partnerships.
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