---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001820144-24-000059"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GRND"
cik: "0001820144"
company_name: "Grindr Inc."
filed_at: "2024-11-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T23:51:55.276089+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Grindr names former BuzzFeed CAO Daniel Weinstein as new Chief Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Kye Chen departs as CAO effective Nov 25, 2024; Daniel Weinstein joins Nov 26, 2024.
- Weinstein previously CAO at BuzzFeed (BZFD) and Senior Director of Accounting at MongoDB (MDB).
- Weinstein receives $350K base salary, 35% annual target bonus, and RSUs valued at $1,100,000.
- RSUs vest 25% on first anniversary, then quarterly over three years.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001820144-24-000059
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GRND
- cik: 0001820144
- company_name: Grindr Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-11-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820144/000182014424000059/0001820144-24-000059-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820144/000182014424000059/grnd-20241111.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kye Chen departed as Chief Accounting Officer at Grindr Inc..
  - Action: departure
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On November 11, 2024, Kye Chen and Grindr Inc. (the “Company”) announced that her final day as Chief Accounting Officer of the Company would be November 25, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820144/000182014424000059/0001820144-24-000059-index.htm
- Executive change
  Daniel I. Weinstein was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at Grindr Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Daniel I. Weinstein will be joining the Company as its Chief Accounting Officer, effective November 26, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820144/000182014424000059/0001820144-24-000059-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.