Garrett Johnson

Garrett Johnson is an entrepreneur, nonprofit leader, and former elite college athlete. He is the co-founder and COO of Hydra Host, a leading provider of scalable, bare metal GPU and compute infrastructure platform, backed by NEA, Founders Fund, 1517 Fund, Sterling Road, Sovereign’s Capital, and Uma Ventures. Garrett is also the co-founder of the Foundation for American Innovation. He is also a venture partner at Uma Ventures, a San Francisco based early stage venture capital firm. Previously, he co-founded SendHub, a venture-backed Y Combinator startup, and worked as professional staff for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, overseeing portfolios including Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Haiti. He is a two-time NCAA Shot Put Champion and a Rhodes Scholar, earning his MPhil in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford after graduating magna cum laude from Florida State University.