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Hydra Host

Hydra Host provides an operating system and marketplace that helps data centers monetize GPU capacity and gives AI builders access to bare-metal compute.

hydrahost.com · Miami

CALL NO.CS·HYDRAHOST·26
StageSeries AJune 2026 · led by Kindred Ventures[1][3]
Raised$40Mdisclosed rounds[2][4]
Headcount51as of Apr 2026[4]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2021[3][4]
Money

Raised $40M across disclosed rounds.[2][4]

Series A closed June 2026, led by Kindred Ventures.[1][3]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Kindred Ventures, NVIDIA, ARK Invest, SPLY Capital, Jasper Lau's Era Funds, Comcast Ventures, Magnetar, PEAK6, Founders Fund, 10x Founders, Sterling Road, Flume Ventures, Scott McNealy.[1][3]

People

Aaron Ginn, CEO & Co-Founder[1][5][6][7]

Garrett Johnson, Co-Founder & COO[1][5][6][7]

Ariel Deschapell, Co-Founder & CPTO[1][5][6][7]

Ryan Horjus, VP of AI Deployments[1][4][8][9][10]

Fraser Eales, EMEA Sales Director[1][4][8][9][10]

Corey Carrico, Director of Marketing[1][4][8][9][10]

John Srour, Manager, Strategic Partnerships[1][4][8][9][10]

Signals
Jun 24 2026newsHydra Host company claim, not independently confirmed[4]
Jun 24 2026newsHydra Partner Program, HPC & Revenue Solutions company claim, not independently confirmed[14]
Jun 16 2026fundingHydra Host Raises $100 Million Series A to Expand Global AI Factory Capacity[1][3][11][13]
May 21 2026newsHydra Host named Dell Technologies 2026 Global Alliances Americas GPU Provider Partner of the Year company claim, not independently confirmed[4]
Feb 27 2026newsDuos Technologies signs $200M LOI with Hydra Host company claim, not independently confirmed[4]
Sep 5 2025newsHydra Host and Introl Announce Strategic Collaboration to Power AI ... company claim, not independently confirmed[12]
Comps

CoreWeave · coreweave.com · Same buyer (AI builders needing GPU compute) and same budget (GPU-as-a-Service), but CoreWeave owns its own infrastructure while Hydra Host is asset-light and operates a marketplace and OS for third-party data centers.[1][3]

Lambda Labs · lambdalabs.com · Same buyer and budget (GPU cloud for AI workloads), but Lambda sells both cloud and hardware directly, whereas Hydra Host aggregates third-party data center capacity.[2]

Vultr · vultr.com · Same buyer and workflow (bare-metal GPU rental), but Vultr operates its own data center footprint while Hydra Host is a software and marketplace layer on top of partner data centers.[1][3]

Core Scientific · corescientific.com · Overlap in data center operator monetization of GPU capacity, but Core Scientific was acquired by CoreWeave and focuses on owned infrastructure rather than a multi-operator software platform.[3]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[4]

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Hydra Host provides an operating system and marketplace that helps data centers monetize GPU capacity and gives AI builders access to bare-metal compute.

hydrahost.com · Miami

StageSeries A
Raised$40M
Headcount51
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2021
CompsCoreWeave +3

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