Location: Fremont, California United States United States
Stage: Beta (public testing)
Number of employees: 16-30
Short URL: vator.co/GrandCentral
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GrandCentral Communications, Inc.

GrandCentral
Startup/business
California, United States United States United States
http://www.grandcentral.com/
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Company description
GrandCentral Communications is a next- generation personal communications company. We provide consumers with One Number…for Life™ by integrating all existing phones, numbers, and voicemail boxes into one. We give subscribers unprecedented control over how incoming calls are managed through a simple web-based interface.
Team
Craig Walker, Founder and CEO Prior to co-founding GrandCentral, Craig was Senior Director of VoIP at Yahoo!, CEO of Dialpad Communications, a technology venture investor at Sterling Payot Capital and a corporate attorney at top tier law firms in Silicon Valley. Craig received his B.A. from UC Berkeley, his M.B.A. from Georgetown University and his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley. Vincent Paquet, Founder and COO Prior to co-founding GrandCentral with Craig, Vincent was Director of Business Development at Yahoo!, VP of Business Development and Marketing at Dialpad, and VP at the French foreign investment agency (IFA). Vincent received his bachelor's degree from Middlesex Business School in the UK, and graduated from the Reims Management School in France. Don Fletcher, PhD., CTO Don brings over 30 years of advanced system design and consulting experience to GrandCentral, including being Executive VP of Engineering at Elcotel Telecommunications, and VP of Engineering for Teledebit. Don holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the California Institute of Technology.
Business model
GrandCentral will offer premium features on a subscription or a prepaid basis, depending on the feature or group of features. There will always be a free version of GrandCentral that will include unlimited inbound minutes, unlimited voicemail (up to 30 days old), and access to all of our core features.
Competitive advantage
GrandCentral offers one of the most robust feature sets in the space, and is rapidly adding more functionality, increasing the gap between the company and its competitors. The management team has extensive experience in VoIP and in delivering exceptional value to users.