---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-23-025249"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GRND"
cik: "0001820144"
company_name: "Grindr Inc."
filed_at: "2023-05-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T22:34:39.305375+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Grindr Inc. becomes guarantor on $192M credit facility; waives existing payment default

## Summary
- Grindr Inc. and Grindr Group LLC added as guarantors; pledge assets as collateral under Fortress Credit Corp. loan.
- Amendment No. 4 waives existing Event of Default for failure to timely pay principal due March 31, 2023.
- Credit facility permits borrowings up to $192M; prior supplemental tranches added $60M and $170.8M.
- Grindr Inc. replaces Grindr Gap as reporting entity, must deliver consolidated financials to lenders.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-23-025249
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GRND
- cik: 0001820144
- company_name: Grindr Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-05-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820144/000114036123025249/0001140361-23-025249-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820144/000114036123025249/brhc20053065_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-23-025249.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Grindr Inc. amended Amendment No. 4 to the Credit Agreement with Fortress Credit Corp. valued at Company and Legacy Grindr become guarantors of borrowings under the Credit Agreement and pledge cert (effective 2023-05-12).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: credit facility
  - Counterparty: Fortress Credit Corp.
  - Value: Company and Legacy Grindr become guarantors of borrowings under the Credit Agreement and pledge cert
  - Effective: 2023-05-12
  source text: On May 12, 2023, Grindr Inc. (the “ Company ”), Grindr Group LLC (“ Legacy Grindr ”), Grindr Capital LLC (f/k/a San Vicente Capital LLC) (the “ Borrower ”), Fortress Credit Corp. (“ Fortress ”) and the other credit parties and lenders party to the June 10, 2020 credit agreement (the “ Credit Agreement ”) between Grindr Gap LLC (f/k/a San Vicente Gap LLC) (“ Grindr Gap ”), the Borrower, Fortress and the other credit parties and lenders party thereto, entered into an Amendment No. 4 to the Credit Agreement and related agreements (the “ Amendment No. 4 ”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820144/000114036123025249/0001140361-23-025249-index.htm

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