Fabrice Grinda (born 3 August 1974) is a French entrepreneur, blogger for Business Insider and super angel, with more than 150 investments around the world, including Alibaba Group, Airbnb, Beepi, FanDuel, Palantir and Windeln. Grinda has had $300 million in investment exits. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Aucland, Zingy, and OLX and is a frequent conference speaker on trends in technology, emerging markets, and investing.
Grinda was born in Boulogne Billancourt in France and grew up in Nice, where he graduated high school C Massena in 1992. He left France to attend Princeton University and graduated summa cum laude in 1996; he was awarded the Halbert White '72 prize for most distinguished economics student and the Wolf Balleisen memorial prize for best economics thesis.
While at Princeton, Grinda created Princeton International Computers, exporting high-end computer equipment from the U.S. to Europe. He then worked as a consultant for McKinsey from 1996 to 1998 before returning to France where he co-founded the company Aucland.
Grinda is an island located in the Stockholm archipelago, Sweden. It is located south of Ljusterö, east of Vaxholm and west of Svartsö and Möja.
Grinda is a popular island especially during summer, for campers, tourists and people travelling the Stockholm archipelago by boat. Most of the island is owned by the non-profit organisation Skärgårdsstiftelsen (Archipelago Foundation), whose purpose is keeping the island's nature and facilities in good condition for outside visitors. The island hosts a tavern, bar and grocery store, and is frequented daily during the summer season by the passenger ferries of Waxholmsbolaget.
Coordinates: 59°24′40″N 18°33′57″E / 59.41111°N 18.56583°E / 59.41111; 18.56583
Grinda is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: