Artificial Intelligence (AI) Collaboration and Licensing Deals 2019-2026

The definitive benchmark for artificial intelligence dealmaking

Artificial intelligence (AI) partnering is driven by technology-led collaborations that span multiple therapeutic areas, with deal structures reflecting access to platforms, data, and computational capabilities.

This report provides a comprehensive and structured analysis of 1220+ AI collaboration and licensing deals, delivering a clear and evidence-based view of how partnerships are designed, negotiated, and executed across the market.

Establish a clear view of market standards

The report enables a precise understanding of how AI deals are structured in practice, allowing you to:

• Benchmark comparable transactions with confidence
• Detailed analysis of upfronts, milestones, and royalty structures across relevant deals
• Define realistic market parameters
• Clear insight into how deal terms vary by technology type, application, and partner profile
• Support valuation and structuring decisions with evidence
• Ground internal discussions in real transaction data rather than assumptions
• Understand how leading companies approach dealmaking
• Visibility into partner behaviour and recurring deal structures across a rapidly evolving, technology-driven landscape
• Full visibility into deal structure and execution
• Beyond headline deal data, the report provides access to underlying contract documents, enabling a detailed understanding of how agreements are constructed in practice.

This includes:

• Rights granted and retained
• Development and commercialization responsibilities
• Financial structures and payment triggers
• Key contractual provisions and protections
• This level of transparency is critical to understanding how value, risk, and control are allocated within AI partnerships, particularly where access to proprietary platforms, data, and capabilities is central to the collaboration.
• Designed for real-world BD and strategy use

The report is widely used to:

• Structure and benchmark live transactions
• Prepare for negotiations with well-defined market context
• Evaluate technology partners and collaboration opportunities
• Support internal strategy with robust, defensible data
• What's included
• 1220+ AI collaboration and licensing deals
• Financial terms, including upfronts, milestones, and royalties where disclosed
• Fully searchable deal directory (by company, technology, and application)
• Direct access to SEC-filed agreements and source documents
• Analysis of deal trends, key transactions, and active dealmakers
• A trusted, evidence-based reference for AI dealmaking
• Combining comprehensive deal coverage with contract-level insight, this report provides a trusted, evidence-based reference for how AI partnerships are structured, negotiated, and valued.