Tanner Jones

CEO of Vulcan Technologies

Co-founder

Vulcan Technologies· Summer 2025🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @Tanner_H_Jones

2025Chief Executive Officer· Vulcan Technologies

Founder · since 2020

Company

Vulcan Technologies

Role

Chief Executive Officer

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Vulcan Technologies

Secure frontier AI for government & adjacent knowledge work

Summer 2025

Experience

Career

Vulcan Technologies
Chief Executive Officer · 2025 – Present
2025
Edina Senior High School
Public Forum Debate and Extemp Speaking Coach · 2018 – Present
2018
The Cicero Institute
Technology Policy Director and Regulatory Policy Fellow · 2023 – 2025
2023
Sampsell-Jones Law Office, LLC
Office Assistant · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · 2020 – 2023
2020
Dickey Center at Dartmouth College
John Sloan Dickey Center Great Issues Scholar · 2018 – 2023
2018
Downballot Solutions
Co-founder
Co-Founder, CEO · Edina, Minnesota · 2020 – 2022
2020
Rhonda Bland for Edina City Council
Campaign Manager · Edina, Minnesota, United States · 2020
2020
Yang2020
Field Organizer · Lebanon, New Hampshire · 2019 – 2020
2019
Summit Debate Summer Camp
Speech & Debate Instructor · 2018
2018
Edina Planning Commission
Student Commissioner · Edina City Hall · 2016 – 2018
2016
Minnesota State Senator Melissa Franzen
Summer Intern · Minnesota State Capitol 75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd Saint Paul · 2017
2017

Bio

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.