Pipe mysqldump into gzip or improve IO load with another method

[bdbch]

Problem
I tried using the flynt-cli for cloning a pretty huge database (around 300mb) and it takes forever.
One clone took me around 15 minutes which is pretty heavy for syncing data to multiple environments.

Is there something that can be done to decrease initial IO load while syncing and using gzip to pack dumps before transfering them?