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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-23-031409"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GRND"
cik: "0001820144"
company_name: "Grindr Inc."
filed_at: "2023-06-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T17:13:22.270560+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Grindr stockholders elect nine directors and ratify EY as auditor at 2023 annual meeting

## Summary
- All nine nominees elected to board; George Arison received 148.7M votes for, 5.6M withheld.
- Ernst & Young ratified as independent auditor for FY2023 with 160.5M votes for, 1,552 against.
- 173.8M shares outstanding as of April 25, 2023 record date; quorum present at meeting.
- Directors include George Arison, G. Raymond Zage, James Fu Bin Lu, J. Michael Gearon, Jr., and others.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-23-031409
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GRND
- cik: 0001820144
- company_name: Grindr Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-06-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820144/000114036123031409/0001140361-23-031409-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820144/000114036123031409/brhc20054853_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Grindr Inc. shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-06-21 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-21
  source text: Proposal One: Election of Directors The Company’s stockholders elected the nine persons listed below as to serve on the Company’s board of directors until the Company’s 2024 annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation or removal. The final voting results are as follows: Votes For Votes Withheld Broker Non-Votes George Arison 148,671,580 5,627,563 6,232,385 G. Raymond Zage, III 148,709,967 5,589,176 6,232,385 James Fu Bin Lu 148,276,695 6,022,448 6,232,385 J. Michael Gearon, Jr. 148,321,103 5,978,040 6,232,385 Daniel Brooks Baer 154,295,457 3,686 6,232,385 Meghan Stabler 153,804,759 494,384 6,232,385 Gary I. Horowitz 153,804,888 494,255 6,232,385 Maggie Lower 154,295,717 3,426 6,232,385 Nathan Richardson 153,804,571 494,572 6,232,385
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820144/000114036123031409/0001140361-23-031409-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Grindr Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of the Selection of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the 2023-06-21 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-21
  source text: Proposal Two: Ratification of the Selection of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm The Company’s stockholders ratified the selection by the Audit Committee of the Company’s board of directors of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023. The final voting results are as follows: Votes For Votes Against Abstentions 160,529,452 1,552 524
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820144/000114036123031409/0001140361-23-031409-index.htm

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