LENZ Therapeutics Inc

Certain statements in this prospectus may constitute “forward-looking statements” for purposes of the federal securities laws. Our forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our or our management team’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, including those relating to the Transactions and their expected benefits; our performance following the Transactions; our plans relating to the clinical development of our product candidates, including the size, number and areas to be evaluated; our plans relating to commercializing our product candidates, if approved, including the geographic areas of focus and strategy; and our ability to obtain funding for its operations. Forward-looking statements include statements relating to our management team’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, including those relating to the Merger and related transactions. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intends,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “will,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.

These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting us will be those that we have anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond our control) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, our actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to, the following:

•the likelihood of our clinical trials demonstrating safety and efficacy of our product candidates, and other positive results;

•the timing, progress and results of our clinical trials for our current product candidates, including statements regarding the timing of completion of trials, and the reporting of data from our current trials;

•our plans relating to the clinical development of our product candidates, including the size, number and areas to be evaluated;

•the size of the market opportunity for our product candidates, including our estimates of the size of the affected population and potential adoption rate;

•the timing, scope and likelihood of regulatory filings and approvals for our current product candidates;

•our plans relating to the further development and manufacturing of our product candidates;

•the expected potential benefits of strategic collaborations with third parties and our ability to attract collaborators with development, regulatory and commercialization expertise;

•the rate and degree of market acceptance and clinical utility of our current product candidates and other product candidates we may develop;

•the impact of existing laws and regulations and regulatory developments in the United States and other jurisdictions;

•our intellectual property position, including the scope of protection we are able to establish and maintain for intellectual property rights covering our current product candidates, including the extensions of existing patent terms where available, the validity of intellectual property rights held by third parties, and our ability not to infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate any third-party intellectual property rights;

•our continued reliance on third parties to conduct additional clinical trials of our product candidates, and for the manufacture of our product candidates for clinical trials;

•our financial performance;

•costs related to the Merger;

•our ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the Merger;

•our expectations regarding the period during which we will remain an emerging growth company under the JOBS Act; and

•our anticipated use of our existing resources and the proceeds from the Transactions.

Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of our assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements. It is not possible to predict or identify all such risks. We do not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.