Vulcan Technologies

Vulcan Technologies

Secure frontier AI for government & adjacent knowledge work

Austin, TX
17 employees
Legal
Seed · $10.9M

Company details

Team Size17
LocationAustin, TX
IndustryLegal

Funding

Total raised

$10.9M

Last stage

Seed

Investors

General Catalyst
CCubit Capital
Y Combinator
SV Angel
Liquid 2 Ventures

Founders

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Aleksander Mekhanik

Dropped out of Dartmouth where he studied Machine Learning; national chess champion and Jack Byrne grant recipient for top math students. Worked as an AI engineer at several startups before founding Vulcan.

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Tanner Jones

Tanner Jones

Tanner studied PPE and Classics at Dartmouth. Previously, he founded and exited Downballot Solutions with Arvind Veluvali (Fresco AI, YC F24), a political campaign tech startup. Later, Tanner was the Technology and Regulatory Policy Director at Joe Lonsdale's Cicero Institute, where he was the 2024 employee of the year. Tanner also coached the 2021 speech and debate national champion, holds powerlifting records in two states, and qualified to the 2023 IPL world powerlifting championships.

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Chris Minge

Chris Minge

Chris studied computer science and philosophy at Princeton University, graduating in 2022. After graduating, he was a software engineer at Google, where he worked on ML infrastructure, supporting Gemini, Waymo, Vertex AI, and other services.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.