2x founder

Aleksander Mekhanik

Co-Founder and CSO at Vulcan Technologies [YC S25]

Co-founder

Vulcan Technologies· Summer 2025🇺🇸 Hanover, New Hampshire, United States

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2025Co-founder· Vulcan Technologies

Founder · since 2024

Company

Vulcan Technologies

Role

Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

Austin, Texas, United States

current

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
Co-founder
Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer · Austin, Texas, United States · 2025 – Present
2025
StoryWeaver AI Book Writing Startup
Co-founder
Co-Founder and CTO · 2024
2024
Large Language Model Research
Research Assistant · 2023
2023

Bio

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.