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Formation Bio

Formation Bio is an AI-native pharmaceutical company building the pharma company of the future. Rather than applying AI to drug discovery, it focuses on drug development — acquiring and in-licensing clinical-stage drug candidates from pharma companies, universities, and biotech firms, then running them through clinical development far more efficiently than industry standards using its proprietary AI-native platform, data, and fine-tuned models. Led by CEO Benjamine Liu and CTO Linhao Zhang, the company raised a $372M Series D in 2024 led by a16z with participation from Sanofi, Sequoia, Thrive, Emerson Collective, and others, and partners with Sanofi and OpenAI on custom models for the drug development lifecycle. Formation Bio does not currently publish a public developer API; this profile tracks its identity and public web surface.

Formation Bio is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Pharmaceutical, Drug Development, Artificial Intelligence, and Biotechnology.

Formation Bio’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 3 more developer resources.

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11.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 11.2/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 2.1 / 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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Security Posture 1

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

Formation Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: formation
name: Formation Bio
description: Formation Bio is an AI-native pharmaceutical company building the pharma company of the future. Rather than applying
  AI to drug discovery, it focuses on drug development — acquiring and in-licensing clinical-stage drug candidates from pharma
  companies, universities, and biotech firms, then running them through clinical development far more efficiently than industry
  standards using its proprietary AI-native platform, data, and fine-tuned models. Led by CEO Benjamine Liu and CTO Linhao
  Zhang, the company raised a $372M Series D in 2024 led by a16z with participation from Sanofi, Sequoia, Thrive, Emerson
  Collective, and others, and partners with Sanofi and OpenAI on custom models for the drug development lifecycle. Formation
  Bio does not currently publish a public developer API; this profile tracks its identity and public web surface.
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