Top 1 SaaS Companies in HaMerkaz, Israel, August 2026

HaMerkaz, Israel

Speedsize is a New York-based AI media compression company that helps e-commerce and fashion brands maintain image and video quality while reducing file sizes and improving page load performance. Founded by Vlad Malanin, a Ukrainian-born MD, PhD, surgeon-turned-AI scientist, and his Israeli co-founder, the company serves approximately 200 global brands including We Shoes and Philip Morris International. The company launched sales in early 2022 and has grown revenue from $400,000 that first year to approximately $6,000,000 in annualized recurring revenue as of late 2025, operating on annual contracts with an average contract value of roughly $30,000. Speedsize has raised a total of $5,000,000 across two primary rounds and operates with a team of 25, roughly 70 percent of whom are engineers. Despite a near-death cash crisis in 2023, when the company held less than $300,000 in the bank and had under two months of runway amid simultaneous wars in Ukraine and Israel, Speedsize stabilized by cutting expenses and customer acquisition costs each by 50 percent in 2024. The founders retain more than 70 percent of equity and declined a $24,000,000 acquisition offer in 2025, citing a belief the company is worth substantially more.