Vulcan Technologies

AI for every law, regulation, and court case

Y CombinatorSummer 2025ActiveB2BLegal

What they do

Problem

Government agencies and businesses struggle to understand and comply with sprawling laws, regulations, and case law, making regulatory analysis slow, costly, and consultant-dependent.

Solution

Vulcan uses AI-driven "intelligent legal cartography" to map laws, regulations, and court cases and generate automated regulatory drafting, comment responses, and cost-benefit analyses.

Who it's for

Government agencies and regulated businesses that need automated regulatory and legal analysis.

Founders

Tanner Jones

Founder

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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Aleksander Mekhanik

Founder

Alek earned the prestigious Jack Byrne grant offered to the top math students at Dartmouth, where he studied electrical computer engineering with a focus in machine learning. Previously, Alek was a nationally competitive chess player and high school varsity athlete. He has also contributed to several startups as a machine learning engineer. Beyond Vulcan, Alek holds Ivy League and Arizona powerlifting records and qualified to USAPL collegiate nationals.

Chris Minge

Co-Founder & CTO

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.