Company: LENZ
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001815776-25-000019
Chunk: 135

Company: LENZ Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 135
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. None of our employees are represented by a labor union or covered under a collective bargaining agreement. We have not experienced any work stoppages due to employee disputes, and we consider our relationship with our employees to be good.

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Our human capital resources objectives include, as applicable, identifying, recruiting, retaining, incentivizing and integrating our existing and new employees, advisors and consultants. The principal purposes of our equity and cash incentive plans are to attract, retain and reward personnel through the granting of stock-based and cash-based compensation awards, in order to increase stockholder value and the success of our company by motivating such individuals to perform to the best of their abilities and achieve our objectives.

Corporate and Available Information

We were incorporated in Ontario, Canada on June 1, 2017, as Longbow Therapeutics Inc. and were reincorporated in the State of Delaware in October 2019. In February 2020, we changed our name to Integral Medicines, Inc. and in August 2020, we changed our name to Graphite Bio, Inc. On March 21, 2024 (the “Closing Date”), we consummated a merger pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 14, 2023 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among us, Generate Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and our wholly-owned subsidiary (“Generate Merger Sub”) and LENZ Therapeutics Operations, Inc. (previously named Lenz Therapeutics, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (“LENZ OpCo”).

Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, on the Closing Date, (i) we effected a reverse stock split of our issued common stock at a ratio of 1:7, (ii) we changed our name to “LENZ Therapeutics, Inc.”, and (iii) Generate Merger Sub merged with and into LENZ OpCo (the “Merger”), with LENZ OpCo as the surviving company in the Merger and, after giving effect to such Merger, LENZ OpCo becoming our wholly-owned subsidiary. 

Our principal executive offices are located at 201 Lomas Santa Fe Dr., Suite 300, Solana Beach, California 92075, and our telephone number is (858) 925-7000. Our investor relations website is located at https://ir.lenz-tx.com/. Information contained on the website is not incorporated by reference into this Form 10-K or any other