Formation Bio

Formation Bio (formerly TrialSpark, founded 2016 in New York City) is a tech-driven, AI-native pharmaceutical company that aims to bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently. Rather than discovering drugs, Formation Bio in-licenses and acquires clinical-stage drug assets from pharma companies, universities, and biotech firms, then develops them using proprietary technology platforms, process automation, and large language models applied across the drug development lifecycle — patient recruitment, e-consent, data management, monitoring, and biostatistics. The company rebranded from TrialSpark to Formation Bio in 2023 as it moved from a pure clinical-trial software platform to combined platform-plus-asset ownership. It raised a $372M Series D in 2024 and announced a first-in-class AI collaboration with Sanofi and OpenAI. Formation Bio operates hybrid teams across New York City, Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and North Carolina's Research Triangle. It is a private company with no public developer API program; this profile captures its identity and public web surface for the API Evangelist network.

Formation Bio is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Drug Development, and Clinical Trials.

Formation Bio’s developer surface includes engineering blog, YouTube channel, and 23 more developer resources.

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7.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only library Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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Company Pharmaceuticals Biotechnology Drug Development Clinical Trials Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Life Sciences

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 7.7/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Formation Bio Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact

Contact

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 10

The organization behind the API

Website

Blog

Website

About

Press

Careers

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

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Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

SecondaryMarket

SecondaryMarket

Source (apis.yml)

aid: formation-bio
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/formation-bio.png
name: Formation Bio
description: Formation Bio (formerly TrialSpark, founded 2016 in New York City) is a tech-driven, AI-native pharmaceutical
  company that aims to bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently. Rather than discovering drugs, Formation
  Bio in-licenses and acquires clinical-stage drug assets from pharma companies, universities, and biotech firms, then develops
  them using proprietary technology platforms, process automation, and large language models applied across the drug development
  lifecycle — patient recruitment, e-consent, data management, monitoring, and biostatistics. The company rebranded from TrialSpark
  to Formation Bio in 2023 as it moved from a pure clinical-trial software platform to combined platform-plus-asset ownership.
  It raised a $372M Series D in 2024 and announced a first-in-class AI collaboration with Sanofi and OpenAI. Formation Bio
  operates hybrid teams across New York City, Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and North Carolina's Research Triangle.
  It is a private company with no public developer API program; this profile captures its identity and public web surface
  for the API Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/formation-bio/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- spark-capital
- sv-angel
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Pharmaceuticals
- Biotechnology
- Drug Development
- Clinical Trials
- Artificial Intelligence
- Healthcare
- Life Sciences
tags_raw:
- Company
- Pharmaceutical
- Biotechnology
- Drug Development
- Clinical Trials
- Artificial Intelligence
- Healthcare
- Life Sciences
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.formation.bio
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.formation.bio/blog
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.formation.bio/documents/privacy-policy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/trialspark
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/formation-bio-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.formation.bio/
- type: About
  url: https://www.formation.bio/about-us
- type: Press
  url: https://www.formation.bio/press
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.formation.bio/careers
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.formation.bio/contact
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/formationbio/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/formationbio/
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@FormationBio
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/trialspark_stock/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/formation-bio-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/formation-bio-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/formation-bio-domain-security.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/formation-bio-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://formation.bio
- type: Blog
  url: https://formation.bio/blog
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://formation.bio/documents/privacy-policy
- type: Packages
  url: packages/formation-bio-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/formation-bio-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/formation-bio-domain-security.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/formation-bio-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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