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Hardware is sourced through OEMs including Lenovo, HPE, Dell, and PNY under Nvidia's channel program.\n\nUnlike hyperscale peers such as CoreWeave or Crusoe that own or lease large campuses, Hydra Host runs an asset-light broker model: it does not disclose an operational megawatt footprint or a proprietary GPU inventory count, and its capacity is defined by whatever its colocation partners can turn up. That model targets the mid-market and long-tail of AI buyers who want short-term or geographically specific capacity that the big neoclouds do not carry, and it leans toward inference and fine-tuning workloads more than the multi-thousand-GPU training runs that CoreWeave and Lambda chase.\n\nFounded by CEO Aaron Ginn, the company operated on seed capital from Flume Ventures until a $100 million Series A closed in June 2026 to fund international expansion. 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