GPU infrastructure management startup Hydra Host raises $100M
Data center infrastructure startup Hydra Host Inc. said today it has bagged $100 million in a Series A round of funding led by Kindred Ventures. Investors piled into the round, with Nvidia Corp., Ark Invest, SPLY Capital, Era Funds, Comcast Ventures, Magnetar, Peak6, Founders Fund, 10x Founders, Sterling Road and Flume Ventures also participating.
The startup has carved out a novel role in the artificial intelligence compute industry, creating a marketplace that helps connect developers and enterprises to high-performance graphics processing units that are pooled from data center operators across the globe. It’s trying to solve a growing global compute capacity crunch that has made GPU resources extremely expensive.
Hydra Host has developed an operating system for data centers that supports the procurement, provisioning and orchestration of GPUs, as well as an intelligent offtake network that’s used by the world’s leading AI inference platform providers, frontier labs and enterprises. The Boulder, Colorado-based company says the Brokkr AI Factory Operating System has been deployed at more than 50 data centers across the world, including in the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa regions.
