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Caribou Biosciences, Inc.

HealthcareBiological Products
Ticker CRBUBERKELEY, CAFiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $1.00Diluted shares 98.4M

Caribou Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRBU) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing transformative therapies for patients with devastating diseases through its proprietary CRISPR chRDNA genome-editing technology. The company's website is www.cariboubio.com. From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-06-30
Sales & profitability
$11.16M
+11.7% year over year
Last 12 mo $10.04M
-1329.37%
+337.8 percentage points
Last 12 mo -1090.90%
$-148.13M
+0.7% year over year
Last 12 mo $-103.40M
-111.26%
−52.3 percentage points
Last 12 mo -105.40%
Cash & financing
$-110.99M
+19.7% year over year
Last 12 mo $-95.78M
$-112.35M
+21.5% year over year
Last 12 mo $-95.81M
—
93.4M
+3.4% year over year
Last 12 mo 98.4M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What Caribou Biosciences, Inc. does

In the company’s own words

Caribou Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRBU) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing transformative therapies for patients with devastating diseases through its proprietary CRISPR chRDNA genome-editing technology. The company's website is www.cariboubio.com.

The company focuses on developing allogeneic, or off-the-shelf, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapies manufactured in advance from healthy donor cells. This approach aims to provide broad patient access, rapid treatment initiation, and increased manufacturing scalability compared to autologous CAR-T therapies, which require individual patient cell collection and manufacturing. Caribou's chRDNA technology enables precise multiplex genome editing while maintaining genomic integrity, with significantly lower off-target editing rates compared to first-generation CRISPR systems.

The company is advancing two clinical-stage allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy candidates for hematologic malignancies. Vispacabtagene regedleucel (vispa-cel), an anti-CD19 CAR-T therapy, has been evaluated in the ANTLER phase 1 clinical trial for relapsed or refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The company announced phase 1 results in November 2025 showing an 82 percent overall response rate and 64 percent complete response rate in a confirmatory cohort of 22 second-line large B-cell lymphoma patients. Vispa-cel has received regenerative medicine advanced therapy designation, fast track designation, and orphan drug designation from the FDA. CB-011, an anti-BCMA CAR-T therapy, is being evaluated in the CaMMouflage phase 1 clinical trial for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. The company announced dose escalation results in November 2025 with a recommended dose for expansion of 450 million viable CAR-T cells.

Caribou employs genome-editing strategies including checkpoint disruption through PD-1 knockout and immune cloaking through B2M removal and HLA-E insertion to enhance CAR-T cell activity and persistence. The company owns a robust worldwide patent portfolio protecting its Cas9 and Cas12a chRDNA compositions and genome-editing methods. In April 2025, Caribou announced strategic prioritization efforts focusing resources on vispa-cel and CB-011 while discontinuing its GALLOP trial for lupus and AMpLify trial for acute myeloid leukemia.

Company details
Sector
Healthcare
Industry
Biological Products
Headquarters
BERKELEY, CA
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
1619856
SIC
2836

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2021–2025 · USD
$-167.46M$-112.39M$-57.31M$-2.24M$52.84M20212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns Caribou Biosciences, Inc. — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

80
funds hold it
0 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$22.76M
held by funds, at market
11.5%
of shares held by funds

Largest fund holders · Caribou Biosciences, Inc.’s weight in each

VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.00%of fund net assets
iShares Russell 2000 ETF
IWM · iShares Trust
0.00%of fund net assets
VANGUARD EXTENDED MARKET INDEX FUND
VXF · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.00%of fund net assets
iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF
IWN · iShares Trust
0.01%of fund net assets
iShares Biotechnology ETF
IBB · iShares Trust
0.01%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Could not be determined for this company: bond issues.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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