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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001820144-25-000015"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GRND"
cik: "0001820144"
company_name: "Grindr Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T14:18:26.046926+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Grindr amends CEO George Arison's employment contract; lowers $30M equity vesting market-cap target to $7.5B

## Summary
- Involuntary termination now accelerates vesting of all time- and performance-based equity awards scheduled to vest within 12 months.
- Second CEO market-cap threshold reduced from $10B to $7.5B; $30M fully vested RSU grant must be earned by Oct 19, 2027.
- Definitions of Cause and Good Reason revised; adds board independence and remote-work protections for CEO.
- Annual KPI awards updated with stock price multiplier and true-up mechanism; target value remains $1.5M per year.
- Time-based RSU grant confirmed at $37.5M; performance threshold for $20M grant set at $5B market cap.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001820144-25-000015
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GRND
- cik: 0001820144
- company_name: Grindr Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820144/000182014425000015/0001820144-25-000015-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820144/000182014425000015/grnd-20250318.htm

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