Hydra Host has raised $100 million in a Series A funding round to expand its AI infrastructure platform, which connects independent data center operators with developers and enterprises seeking GPU computing capacity.
The round was led by Kindred Ventures, with participation from NVIDIA, ARK Invest, SPLY Capital, Lingotto Innovation, Era Funds, Comcast Ventures, Magnetar and PEAK6. Existing investors, including Founders Fund, 10x Founders, Sterling Road and Flume Ventures, also participated.
Connecting GPU Supply with AI Demand
Founded by Aaron Ginn, Hydra Host develops software designed to bridge the gap between AI data center operators and organizations requiring large-scale computing resources.
The company said independent data center operators often lack standardized software and direct access to customers, while AI developers continue to seek reliable GPU infrastructure for training and deploying artificial intelligence models.
Hydra Host’s platform is built around its Brokkr AI Factory Operating System, which enables operators to provision GPU hardware, manage infrastructure and connect with customers through a shared software platform.
According to the company, Brokkr currently supports more than 50 data centers across the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Kindred Ventures Founder and Managing Partner Steve Jang said the company is addressing growing demand for AI infrastructure.
“Over the next decade, every sector in the economy and each layer in the technology stack will be driven by high-value tokens generated by AI models. As hundreds of new AI data centers come online and thousands more are planned, Hydra Host offers an enlightened two-prong strategy of an operating system to procure, provision, and orchestrate GPUs as a service for data centers, and an intelligent and responsive offtake network for the world’s leading AI inference platforms, frontier labs, and enterprises.”
Expanding Global Operations
Hydra Host said the new capital will be used to expand its GPU-as-a-Service network, onboard additional data center partners, strengthen software development and increase engineering and customer support resources.
The company also plans to expand internationally while investing in supply chain management, procurement and high-performance computing operations.
Chief Executive Officer Aaron Ginn said the funding will accelerate the company’s next phase of growth.
“We are proud to partner with Kindred Ventures, a leading AI-focused venture capital fund in Silicon Valley, and NVIDIA, creator of the GPU and our strategic partner, as Hydra enters its next growth phase.”
“We have spent years building the go-to operating system for global GPU deployments for data centers that want to become an AI factory. This funding will expand our data center footprint, scale our platform, and support our global customer base, who are looking to rent GPUs easily anywhere and everywhere.”
AI Infrastructure Platform
Hydra Host offers two primary products.
Brokkr provides data center operators with software to manage infrastructure deployment, billing and customer acquisition, while Confidential Metal offers AI developers dedicated bare-metal GPU infrastructure for artificial intelligence workloads.
The company does not own the data centers connected to its platform, instead providing software and customer access while facility owners retain ownership of their infrastructure.
Hydra Host said Verizon Business has completed a proof-of-concept deployment using the Brokkr platform, while GPU infrastructure provider Parasail has also partnered with the company to expand access to compute capacity across multiple regions.