Vulcan Technologies Raises $10.9M Seed Round to Modernize Regulatory Law with AI

The reg-tech start-up is helping government agencies and legal professionals streamline compliance, reduce costs, and navigate complex regulations

Vulcan is live in several state and federal agencies with private sector partners in the pipeline

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Vulcan Technologies, the first reg-tech company offering advanced AI to help government agencies and legal professionals with regulatory drafting and compliance, today announced it has raised a $10.9 million seed round. The round was co-led by General Catalyst and Cubit Capital, with participation from Chief Oil & Gas founder Trevor Rees-Jones, SV Angel, A*, Liquid 2 Ventures, Transpose, 468 Capital, Y Combinator, the founders of Dropbox, and other strategic investors.

"Vulcan is building technology to solve an urgent structural problem confronting U.S. global competitiveness: the broken regulatory system," said Tanner Jones, co-founder and CEO of Vulcan Technologies. "Armed with significant seed funding, we are now equipped to expand an already world-class engineering team, break into the private sector, and continue to enhance American competitiveness by helping agencies and private-sector builders leverage frontier intelligence to navigate the regulatory morass and unleash the engine of American capitalism." 

Founded in 2025, Vulcan's founding team includes policy experts with Machine Learning and AI experts from Google and the former AI lead for Love's. The platform offers three specialized AI systems designed to transform how legal professionals, researchers, and regulators interact with American law. Vulcan ingests all state and federal statutes, regulations, executive orders, and case law into a unified, AI agent-navigable database. Proprietary AI legal cartography algorithms map relationships between legal nodes: statutes that authorize regulations, case law that overturns rules, and Executive Orders that vacate prior law. By mapping upstream legal authorities, Vulcan enables leaders to reduce compliance costs, identify outdated and unknown regulations, and streamline policy execution. Similarly, Vulcan helps regulated firms instantly develop compliance roadmaps, push back against government overreach, and comment on proposed regulations.

"At Cubit Capital, we invest in courageous leaders tackling meaningful problems, and the Vulcan team is exactly that," said Philip Carson, Partner at Cubit Capital. "In just two months, Virginia issued an executive order mandating Vulcan's adoption across agencies – a milestone no other reg-tech has achieved. By replacing multi-million-dollar consulting contracts with instant, auditable analysis enabled by AI to automate rulemaking and compliance, Vulcan is positioned to transform a multi-$100-billion-dollar market and strengthen democratic governance." 

"Navigating today's regulatory landscape is costly and complex. Vulcan is building technology to help address these challenges," said Yuri Sagalov, managing director at General Catalyst. "They've assembled a strong team of AI, engineering, and legal experts, and we're excited by their early traction with government partners. We look forward to supporting their growth as they expand beyond the public sector."

Vulcan's early customers include the Virginia Office of Regulatory Management, the U.S. Department of Education, and South Carolina DOGE. In Virginia, Vulcan's platform played a key role in supporting Governor Glenn Youngkin's Executive Order 19, which mandated a 25% reduction of the state's regulatory code. With AI, Virginia now anticipates a 50% regulatory reduction.

Vulcan's advisors include Patrick McLaughlin, a leading regulatory economist at Stanford's Hoover Institution whose RegData and QuantGov projects have informed reform efforts in more than ten states, and Jonathan Wolfson, former head of the U.S. Department of Labor's Policy Office and a seasoned regulatory attorney with experience at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and in federal litigation. 

About Vulcan Technologies
Vulcan Technologies, headquartered in Austin, Texas, builds advanced AI tools to help government agencies and legal professionals. Founded in 2025 by a team that includes Dartmouth and Princeton alumni alongside former Google engineers, the company is transforming how organizations interact with the complex world of law. By combining cutting-edge natural language processing with deep domain expertise, Vulcan helps governments and enterprises analyze, manage, and reform regulatory environments more efficiently and cost-effectively. The company is advised by leading experts in law and economics from the Hoover Institution and the U.S. Department of Labor. For more information, visit www.vulcan-tech.com.

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