Sector benchmarks
Median price over revenue and price per employee in AI deployment acquisitions, for generalists, specialists and each type of buyer, with the number of deals behind every figure.
435 acquisitions of AI deployment firms by 309 buyers, announced from Jan 2012 to Oct 2026. 41 of them state a price. Across all of them the median price over revenue is 3.0x from 8 deals and the median price per employee is $439K from 27 deals. Only deals that state the figures count toward a median, so each one says how many deals it rests on.
Generalists and specialists
- Generalists: 76 deals. Median price over revenue: 24x from 2 deals. Median price per employee: $371K from 10 deals.
- Specialists: 300 deals. Median price over revenue: 3.0x from 5 deals. Median price per employee: $487K from 16 deals.
By type of buyer
- IT services firms: 210 deals. Median price over revenue: 3.1x from 5 deals. Median price per employee: $510K from 17 deals.
- Consulting and accounting firms: 53 deals. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: $439K from 1 deal.
- AI and data firms: 91 deals. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: $130K from 1 deal.
- Private equity and holding companies: 21 deals. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: $485K from 4 deals.
- Software and technology companies: 32 deals. Median price over revenue: 29x from 1 deal. Median price per employee: $2.2M from 1 deal.
- AI lab ventures: 4 deals. Median price over revenue: no deal states one yet. Median price per employee: no deal states one yet.
- Other: 24 deals. Median price over revenue: 1.0x from 2 deals. Median price per employee: $124K from 3 deals.
What the figures are
Price over revenue is the price paid divided by the target's revenue. Price per employee is the price divided by its headcount at the deal. A figure appears only where a public source states the price and the revenue or headcount. Each deal's sources are on its buyer's page.
Most active buyers
- Accenture (31)
- Artefact (8)
- Cognizant (6)
- Deloitte (6)
- EY (5)
- NTT DATA (5)
- 3Cloud (4)
- Blend360 (4)
- Globant (4)
- Bain & Company (3)
- Dataciders (3)
- EXL (3)
- iLink Digital Group (3)
- Kin + Carta (3)
- MDS SI (3)
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