Craig Walker set up Firespotter Labs after selling GrandCentral to Google (it became Google Voice) and becoming an entrepreneur-in-residence at Google Ventures.

Google Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of US-listed search engine Google, has invested $3m in an incubator set up by some of its former engineers.

Craig Walker set up Firespotter Labs after selling GrandCentral to Google (it became Google Voice) and becoming an entrepreneur-in-residence at Google Ventures in September. Walker has teamed with ex-Googlers Brian Peterson and John Rector as well as Alex Cornell but said in his blog that Firespotter would develop its team’s ideas rather than third parties’.

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