| Status | Privately Held |
| Website | www.globalgrind.com |
| Blog | blogs.globalgrind... |
| Category | Web |
| Phone | 6462574950 |
| Address |
50 Broadway Str 10th Floor New York, NY, 10004 USA |
| Employees | 20 |
| Total | $4.5M |
| Series A, 9/06 1 Russel Simmons | |
| Series B, 8/07 2 Accel Partners | $4.5M |
Global Grind is a place to discover multimedia that interests you. The service aims to help you find out what your friends and others who share your tastes are surfing, watching, reading, and talking about.
The site was founded by former CTO of BET (Black Entertainment Television), Navarrow Wright and legendary rap mogul Russel Simmons is among the site’s investors.
Global Grind demo
| Website | www.globalgrind.com |
| Blog | blogs.globalgrind.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | September 26, 2007 |
| Tags | social-networking |
Global Grind is a community based website allowing people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web, by linking to, voting for, and commenting on each others content, in a social and democratic way. To view the content in full global grind links to the website that published the story, therefore driving traffic to that website and creating a larger market for sites that publish their own news stories, photos, and videos.
Voting submitted content up and down is the cornerstone function of the website, and is respectively referred to as grinding and trashing.
Headquartered in New York City, Global Grind is a privately held firm funded by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel Partners and Hip-Hop Mogul Russell Simmons.
