# Hydra Host

> Hydra Host is a two-sided AI infrastructure company: its Brokkr software standardizes and manages bare-metal GPU capacity across independent data centers, while its commercial operation helps owners procure, finance and monetize that hardware and lets AI companies rent it. The pitch is less glamorous than model building and more useful - make dozens of facilities behave like one programmable network without owning every rack.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** Miami, United States
- **Founders:** Aaron Ginn (CEO), Ariel Deschapell (CTO), Garrett Johnson (COO), Philip A. Dursey (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** Public sources conflict: LinkedIn lists 11-50 employees, while supplied company data reports 82.
- **Products:** Brokkr, Bare-metal GPU rentals, GPU procurement, AI Factory Accelerator, Sovereign AI infrastructure
- **Notable:** Expanded Brokkr from a compute marketplace into a control plane for independent AI factories., Reports managing approximately 20,000 GPUs across more than 40 data centers globally., Raised a $100 million Series A in June 2026 led by Kindred Ventures with NVIDIA and other investors participating.

## Products & services

- **Brokkr** — A control plane and monetization platform for bare-metal GPU infrastructure covering discovery, provisioning, power controls, diagnostics, monitoring, billing and multiple sales channels through a UI and API.
- **Bare-metal GPU rentals** — Dedicated NVIDIA and AMD GPU servers and clusters offered on interruptible, on-demand and reserved terms across a distributed data-center network.
- **GPU procurement** — Hardware sourcing and quotation using Hydra's relationships with NVIDIA and server OEMs, with options spanning individual systems and large deployments.
- **AI Factory Accelerator** — End-to-end support for site planning, hardware design, procurement, financing, deployment and customer offtake for new AI-focused data centers.
- **Sovereign AI infrastructure** — National-scale GPU deployments designed for domestic control, jurisdictional requirements and local economics, with El Salvador presented as a case study.
- **Confidential Metal** — Dedicated bare-metal infrastructure positioned for secure and sovereign training and inference workloads.

## Achievements

- Expanded Brokkr from a compute marketplace into a control plane for independent AI factories.
- Reports managing approximately 20,000 GPUs across more than 40 data centers globally.
- Raised a $100 million Series A in June 2026 led by Kindred Ventures with NVIDIA and other investors participating.
- Supported El Salvador's acquisition and deployment of NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra B300 systems for sovereign AI.
- Helped demonstrate a flexible inference workload that reduced energy use by up to 25% with a reported 5% throughput reduction in the Parasail-Mercury project.
- Secured a Duos Edge AI partnership tied to a reported $176 million, 36-month GPUaaS contract for Duos.

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Hydra and Introl announced a joint initiative for large-scale AI infrastructure deployment.
- **2025-11** — Hydra reported delivery and engineering support for El Salvador's NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra B300 systems.
- **2026-03** — Duos Technologies signed a definitive agreement with Hydra tied to a high-density GPU cluster and 4.3MW deployment.
- **2026-04** — Hydra published Brokkr updates including fleet observability, revenue and lender dashboards, self-service diagnostics and a new agent CLI/API.
- **2026-06** — Hydra announced a $100 million Series A to expand capacity, Brokkr and its compute offtake network.

## Links

- Website: https://hydrahost.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hydrahost
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/get_hydrahost
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Last updated: 2026-08-22