Elevation Pharmaceuticals

Elevation Pharmaceuticals was a San Diego specialty pharmaceutical company founded in 2008 by Cam Garner, Bill Gerhart, and Ahmet Tutuncu to develop next-generation aerosol/inhalation therapies for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It raised a $30 million Series A in 2010 backed by Canaan Partners, TPG Growth, Care Capital, and Mesa Verde Venture Partners, and was acquired by Sunovion Pharmaceuticals in August 2012. The company is no longer independently operating; its domain now resolves to Sunovion nameservers and it publishes no public API, developer portal, or developer surface. This profile is retained in the API Evangelist network as a Canaan Partners portfolio record.

Elevation Pharmaceuticals is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, COPD, and Respiratory.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyPharmaceuticalsBiotechCOPDRespiratoryDrug DevelopmentAcquiredCanaan Partners Portfolio

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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name: Elevation Pharmaceuticals
description: Elevation Pharmaceuticals was a San Diego specialty pharmaceutical company founded in 2008 by Cam Garner, Bill
  Gerhart, and Ahmet Tutuncu to develop next-generation aerosol/inhalation therapies for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  (COPD). It raised a $30 million Series A in 2010 backed by Canaan Partners, TPG Growth, Care Capital, and Mesa Verde Venture
  Partners, and was acquired by Sunovion Pharmaceuticals in August 2012. The company is no longer independently operating;
  its domain now resolves to Sunovion nameservers and it publishes no public API, developer portal, or developer surface.
  This profile is retained in the API Evangelist network as a Canaan Partners portfolio record.
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created: '2026-07-17'
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- Pharmaceuticals
- Biotech
- COPD
- Respiratory
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