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Revenue from collaboration agreements
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Revenue [abstract]  
Revenue from collaboration agreements
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Revenue from collaboration agreements

The Group earns revenue through strategic collaboration agreements with third-party pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. As of December 31, 2025, the Group had two revenue-generating strategic collaboration agreements in place with Moderna and BMS, after the termination of the collaboration agreement IMA401 (“BMS IMA401”) and Allo (“BMS Allo”), as well as the termination of the collaboration agreement with Genmab A/S, Copenhagen /Denmark (“Genmab”) in 2024.

As part of these collaboration arrangements, Immatics grants exclusive licensing rights or options thereto for the development and commercialization of future product candidates, developed for several targets defined in the respective collaboration agreements, in addition to research activities, including screening of highly specific molecules for reactivity with the specified targets and off-targets using Immatics’ proprietary technology and know-how, participation on a joint steering committee, and preparation of data packages. For the preclinical collaboration agreement with Moderna, the promises represent multiple distinct performance obligations.

Other than the achievement and recognition of a €4.3 million ($5.0 million) milestone for Advanced TCER Activities related to the Moderna agreement in December 2025, the Group has not recognized any royalty or milestone revenue under the collaboration agreements, due to the scientific uncertainty of achieving the milestones or the successful commercialization of a product. As of December 31, 2025, Immatics had not received any royalty payments in connection with the collaboration agreements. The Group

plans to recognize the remaining deferred revenue balance into revenue as it performs the related performance obligations under each contract. Deferred revenues are contract liabilities within the scope of IFRS 15.

Each of the Group’s strategic collaboration agreements included a non-refundable upfront payment recognized as deferred revenue. For all collaboration agreements, these upfront payments exceeded the Group’s right to consideration for services performed. Therefore, only deferred revenue net of contract assets is presented as of December 31, 2025, December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.

Genmab Collaboration Agreement

In July 2018, Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH entered into a research collaboration and license agreement with Genmab to develop conducting joint research to combine Immatics’ XPRESIDENT and bispecific TCR technology platforms with Genmab’s proprietary antibody technologies to develop multiple bispecific immunotherapies in oncology. The two companies planned to develop immunotherapies directed against three proprietary targets.

The Group received a non-refundable upfront payment of €46 million ($54 million) upon signing of the agreement. The Group classified the initial receipt of the upfront payment as deferred revenue, which was recognized into revenue on a cost-to-cost basis using forecasted costs.

In October 2023, Genmab provided Immatics with notice of its decision to terminate one of the bispecific programs under the collaboration. Immatics and Genmab continue their collaboration with the development of one TCER program.

On March 14, 2024, Genmab provided Immatics with a termination notice relating to our collaboration, originally announced in July 2018.

As a result, the Group would not receive any future milestone or royalty payments under the collaboration. Immatics recognized the remaining deferred revenue of €14.9 million within revenue during the three months ended March 31, 2024.

For the year ended December 31, 2025 no revenue was recognized under the Genmab collaboration agreement. During the year ended December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the Group recognized €14.9 million positive revenue and €2.1 million negative revenue on a cost-to-cost method associated with the upfront payment and with reimbursements for research and development costs performed, respectively. The revenue for the year ended December 31, 2024 from the collaboration agreement with Genmab is positive, which results from the recognition of the remaining deferred revenue. For the year ended December 31, 2023 the Group generated a negative revenue due to changes in inputs to the cost-to-cost model which led to an increase in expected cost of the collaboration agreement, resulting in a reduction in calculated percentage of completion.

Total deferred revenue under the agreement was €0.0 million as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024.

Moderna Collaboration Agreement

On September 7, 2023, Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH and ModernaTX, Inc., a Delaware corporation, entered into a strategic research and development collaboration agreement to develop TCER products and cancer vaccines (the “Moderna agreement”). The Moderna agreement became effective on October 12, 2023, after the expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 on October 11, 2023.

Under the terms of the Moderna agreement, the Group received an upfront cash payment of €113 million ($120 million) related to the performance obligations under the contract and will receive research funding.

The Group is eligible to receive additional development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments that could exceed $1.7 billion for TCER products resulting from the collaboration. For each target, depending on certain product characteristics, Immatics may be eligible to receive milestone payments of up to a mid-eight-digit amount upon the achievement of certain development milestones and up to a mid-nine-digit amount upon the achievement of certain regulatory and commercial milestones. In addition, the Group is eligible to receive tiered mid-single-digit to low-double-digit percentage royalties on net sales of TCER products and certain vaccine products that are commercialized under the agreement. Immatics has a right to co-fund the development and commercialization of certain products by making an opt-in payment in exchange for profit or loss sharing on such products.

Moderna leads the clinical development and commercialization of cancer vaccines and TCER therapeutics resulting from the collaboration agreement. Immatics is responsible for conducting the preclinical studies and a potential Phase 1 clinical trial

investigating anzu-cel (IMA203) TCR-T in combination with the PRAME mRNA vaccine to further enhance anzu-cel (IMA203) T cell responses. Immatics and Moderna retain full ownership of its investigational PRAME compound and the clinical study funding will be on a cost-sharing basis.

Immatics concluded that the Clinical Combination is not a contract with a customer and should not be accounted for under IFRS 15, due to the fact that Moderna does not act as a customer and Immatics does not act as a vendor with regard to the Clinical Combination. Both parties jointly run the clinical trial, pay and will then jointly decide on how to proceed in case of a successful combination. In case of a successful combination, either party can still withdraw and not enter into an agreement afterwards. Immatics concluded that the Clinical Combination is a Joint operation under IFRS 11 instead of a contract with a customer under IFRS 15.

The Group concluded for other elements of the contract that Moderna is a customer, since they contain elements of a customer relationship even though it is a collaboration agreement, where to some degree both risks and benefits are shared between the Group and Moderna. They clearly state deliverables to be delivered by the Group and Moderna as mentioned below and create enforceable rights and obligations.

Under IFRS 15, the Group applied significant judgement when evaluating whether the obligations under the Moderna agreement represent one performance obligation, combined performance obligations or multiple performance obligations as well as the allocation of the transaction price to identified performance obligations, and the determination of whether milestone payments should be included in the transaction price.

The Group identified the following distinct performance obligations:

1.
initial early pre-clinical targets from the TCER part (“Early TCER Activities”)
2.
one initial advanced pre-clinical target from the TCER part (“Advanced TCER Activities”)
3.
four distinct performance obligations which, due to their identical accounting treatment as license accesses, are jointly accounted for as one performance obligation (“Database Activities”)

The Early TCER Activities and the Advanced TCER Activities include licenses for target rights, TCRs and our bispecific format TCER, contractually agreed research and development services and the participation in Joint Steering Committee meetings and in TCER Project Committee meetings as distinct performance obligations. The Database Activities include limited access to our database XPRESIDENT and XCUBE and the participation in Database Project Committee meetings as a distinct performance obligation.

Immatics is required to perform research and development for the Early TCER Activities. The work which Immatics promised to perform on the Early TCER Activities is separately identifiable from all other promised goods and services and is not significantly modifying another promised good or service from the agreement. Moderna can benefit from the Early TCER Activities on its own, independently of other promised goods and services. The Early TCER Activities represent one joint obligation as the goal is to maximize the likelihood of one treatment option. All targets are early pre-clinical, meaning the likelihood of failure during the pre-clinical phase is high for each of the targets. Immatics considered the Early TCER Activities as a distinct performance obligation considering the uncertainty that the targets result at the end in a successful TCER product.

The Advanced TCER Activities are focused on a more advanced pre-clinical target. The target is in an advanced pre-clinical phase and, therefore, the Advanced TCER Activities are separately identifiable from all other promised goods and services and are not significantly modifying another promised good or service from the agreement.

The Database Activities involve four distinct performance obligations. All four performance obligations represent different limited access rights to Immatics’ XPRESIDENT and XCUBE. Since the database access rights are predominant in each of the four performance obligations, Immatics concluded to account for the four performance obligations as if they were a single performance obligation, since the revenue recognition pattern will be identical for all four performance obligations.

At inception of the Moderna agreement, the Group determined the transaction price. The Group evaluated inclusion of the milestones as part of the transaction price under the most-likely method. Milestone payments are included at the most likely amount in the transaction price. However, variable consideration is only included in the transaction price to the extent that it is highly probable that a significant reversal in the amount of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur. The contractual agreed milestone payments with Moderna relate to the license. Based on that, the Group concluded that no variable consideration, except for reimbursements, was considered as the transaction price at contract inception. At the end of each reporting period, the Group reevaluates the probability of achievement of milestones and, if necessary, adjusts its estimate of the overall transaction price. Sales-based royalties will only be recognized as sales occur since the license is the predominant item to which the royalty relates.

The Group is required to allocate the determined transaction price, consisting of the upfront payment of €113 million ($120 million) as well as expected research funding of €40 million ($43 million) to the separately identified performance obligations of the Moderna agreement, based on the standalone selling price of each performance obligation. Since these are treated as three performance obligations, the Group determined the underlying stand-alone selling price for each performance obligation, to allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations. The estimation of the standalone selling price included estimates regarding forecasted cost for future services, profit margins and development timelines.

The most reasonable estimation method for the Early TCER Activities and the Database Activities is the adjusted market assessment approach, due to the fact that the Group is able to use insights from prior collaborations as well as information implicit in the contract to estimate the stand-alone selling price.

To estimate a stand-alone selling price for the performance obligation related to the Advanced TCER Activities, the Group concluded to use the residual approach due to the fact that the product candidate in combination with further research to be performed is unique and there is no available market price for the license and hence no specific stand-alone selling price apart from the residual amount was identified. The Group concluded the following transaction price allocation:

1.
Stand-alone selling price for Early TCER Activities: €70 million
2.
Stand-alone selling price for Advanced TCER Activities: €62 million
3.
Stand-alone selling price for Database Activities: €21 million

The Company assessed whether any of the upfront payment should be allocated to the Clinical Combination project and concluded based on the terms of the cost share that no allocation needed to be made.

The Group evaluated each performance obligation to determine if it can be satisfied at a point in time or over time. The control over all performance obligations is satisfied over time. The Group transfers control of these agreed services over time and will therefore recognize revenue over time as costs are incurred using a cost-to-cost method. For the Database Activities, the Group will recognize revenue linearly over time, as the performance obligations represent a right to access the database. At inception of the Moderna agreement, the entire upfront payment was initially deferred on the Group’s Consolidated Statement of Financial Position.

In December 2025, a modification was approved, which contains one distinct performance obligation for research and development services for Advanced TCER Activities. The Group estimated the stand-alone selling price for the distinct performance obligation using the Expected cost plus margin approach. The performance obligation is satisfied over time and therefore revenue will be recognized on a cost-to-cost basis over time. The expected reimbursement over the estimated service period of four years amounts to €18.8 million. The modification also includes an adjustment to the transaction price of the original agreement which is allocated to the stand-alone selling price for the Advanced TCER Activities. The initial transaction price for Advanced TCER Activities of €62 million increased to €66.3 million, due to a €4.3 million milestone achieved in December 2025.

For the year ended December 31, 2025 the Group recognized €32.9 million of revenue associated with the upfront payment, of which €10.7 million were recognized for Advanced TCER Activities on a cost-to-cost method, €15.5 million for Early TCER Activities on a cost-to-cost method and €6.7 million for Database Activities. In addition, the Group recognized revenue of €4.3 million for the achievement of a milestone in December 2025. Total deferred revenue under the agreement was €31.5 million as of December 31, 2025.

For the year ended December 31, 2024 the Group recognized €62.8 million of revenue associated with the upfront payment, of which €45.8 million were recognized for Advanced TCER Activities on a cost-to-cost method, €9.2 million for Early TCER Activities on a cost-to-cost method and €7.8 million for Database Activities. Total deferred revenue under the agreement was €56.2 million as of December 31, 2024.

For the year ended December 31, 2023 the Group recognized €5.4 million of revenue associated with the upfront payment, €3.4 million for Advanced TCER Activities on a cost-to-cost method, €0.4 million for Early TCER Activities on a cost-to-cost method and €1.6 million for Database Activities. Total deferred revenue under the agreement was €110.9 million as of December 31, 2023.

BMS Collaboration Agreement

In August 2019, Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH and BMS entered into a collaboration and option agreement to develop novel adoptive cell therapies targeting multiple cancers. Under the agreement, Immatics may develop T Cell Receptor Engineered T Cell Therapy (TCR-T) programs against solid tumor targets discovered with Immatics’ XPRESIDENT technology. Programs would utilize proprietary T Cell Receptors (TCRs) identified by Immatics’ XCEPTOR TCR discovery and engineering platform. If Immatics

develops programs against the TCR-T targets, Immatics will be responsible for the development and validation of these programs through lead candidate stage, at which time BMS may exercise opt-in rights and assume sole responsibility for further worldwide development, manufacturing and commercialization of the TCR-T cell therapies.

Immatics would have certain early-stage co-development rights or co-funding rights for selected TCR-T cell therapies arising from the collaboration. With respect to this collaboration agreement with BMS, Immatics may be eligible to receive up to $505 million for each licensed product in option exercise payments, development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments as well as tiered royalties on net sales. In addition, Immatics is entitled to royalty payments. Royalty rates are based on aggregate net sales of a licensed product resulting from the collaboration. The agreement provides for higher royalty rates as annual net sales of a licensed product increases. Under each contract, the royalty rates begin in the mid-single-digits, increasing to the low teen-digits as a percentage of aggregate annual net sales of a licensed product.

The Group received a non-refundable upfront payment of €68 million ($75 million) upon signing of the agreement. The Group classified the initial receipt of the upfront payment as deferred revenue, which recognizes into revenue as on a cost-to-cost basis using forecasted costs.

On June 1, 2022, Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH entered into an Amendment to the Strategic Collaboration Agreement originally signed in 2019 (the “amendment”) with BMS. Pursuant to the amendment, the Group received a €18.7 million ($20 million) upfront cash payment related to the performance obligations under the contract. Under the amendment, Immatics will undertake an additional T Cell Receptor Engineered T cell Therapy (TCR-T) program against a solid tumor target discovered with Immatics’ XPRESIDENT technology. The program will utilize proprietary T Cell Receptors (TCRs) identified by Immatics’ XCEPTOR TCR discovery and engineering platform. The increased consideration reflects the stand-alone selling price at contract inception and the amendment contains performance obligations that are distinct from the original performance obligation under the contract. Therefore, the Group determined to account for the modification of the Allogeneic ACT agreement signed in 2019 triggered by the amendment as a separate contract.

Immatics entered into a License agreement (the “BMS Opt-In agreement”) with BMS. The agreement became effective on April 28, 2023. Pursuant to the BMS Opt-In agreement, the Group received an option exercise fee in the amount of €13.7 million ($15 million) for the year ended December 31, 2023. Under the 2019 agreement with BMS, Immatics granted BMS the option to enter into a pre-negotiated license agreement on a target-by-target basis. Immatics developed individual TCR-T products candidates directed against targets under the terms of that 2019 agreement. Under the BMS Opt-In agreement signed on April 28, 2023, BMS exercised its first option and entered into an exclusive license agreement for one target.

On December 13, 2023, BMS decided to terminate one program and substitute another program under the 2019 collaboration agreement.

The Group recognized €11.0 million, €10.9 million and €12.9 million of revenue on a cost-to-cost method associated with the upfront payment for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The Group recognized €13.7 million of revenue associated with the BMS Opt-In agreement during the year ended December 31, 2023. Total deferred revenue under the agreement was €2.8 million, €13.8 million and €24.7 million as of December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

BMS IMA401 Collaboration Agreement

On December 10, 2021, Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH entered into a License, Development and Commercialization agreement (the “BMS IMA401 agreement”) with BMS. The BMS IMA401 agreement became effective on January 26, 2022, after the expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 on January 25, 2022. Pursuant to the BMS IMA401 agreement, the Group received a €133 million ($150 million) upfront cash payment related to the performance obligations under the contract. The Group identified the transfer of a global exclusive IMA401 license, including technology transfer and the contractually agreed clinical trial services including participation in Joint Steering Committee meetings as distinct performance obligations.

The Group was required to allocate the determined transaction price of €133 million ($150 million) to the two separate identified performance obligations of the BMS IMA401 agreement, based on the standalone selling price of each performance obligation, as the upfront payment of €133 million ($150 million) covers the cost of clinical trial services as well as an initial payment for the license. Since the BMS IMA401 agreement consisted of two performance obligations, the Group determined the underlying stand-alone selling price for each performance obligation, to allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations. The estimation of the stand-alone selling price included estimates regarding forecasted cost for future services, profit margins and development timelines.

The most reasonable estimation method for the performance obligation related to clinical trial services is the expected cost method, due to the fact that the Group is able to use expected costs including a profit margin to estimate the stand-alone selling price. On top of the forecast of expected costs, the Group added an appropriate profit margin based on average company profit margins for clinical trial services.

To estimate a stand-alone selling price for the performance obligation related to the IMA401 license, the Group concluded to use the residual approach due to the fact that the license is a unique license and there is no available market price for the license and, hence, no specific stand-alone selling price apart from the residual amount was identified. The Group concluded the following transaction price allocation of the €133 million ($150 million) upfront payment as of March 31, 2022:

1.
Stand-alone selling price for clinical trial services: €41.8 million
2.
Stand-alone selling price for the license grant: €91.3 million

The Group evaluated each performance obligation to determine if it can be satisfied at a point in time or over time. The control over the granted license is transferred at a point in time, after BMS obtains the rights to use the license at the effective date of the agreement. The performance obligation related to promised clinical trial services is satisfied over time. The Group transfers control of these agreed services over time and will therefore recognize revenue over time as costs are incurred using a cost-to-cost method. At the inception of the BMS IMA401 agreement, €41.8 million were initially deferred on the Group’s Consolidated Statement of Financial Position.

On September 13, 2024, the Group received the notice of termination by Bristol Myers Squibb for the collaboration regarding IMA401 (“BMS IMA401”). The termination resulted in the recognition of the remaining deferred revenue of €21.0 million from the collaboration during the three months ended September 30, 2024.

For the year ended December 31, 2025 no revenue was recognized under the BMS IMA401 agreement. During the year ended December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the Group recognized €26.1 million and €8.8 million of revenue on a cost-to-cost method associated with the upfront payment, respectively. Total deferred revenue under the agreement was €0.0 million as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, as well as €26.0 million as of December 31, 2023.

Allogeneic ACT Collaboration Agreement

On June 1, 2022, Immatics US, Inc. entered into a License, Development and Commercialization agreement (the “Allogeneic ACT agreement”) with Bristol-Myer-Squibb Company (“BMS”). Pursuant to the Allogeneic ACT agreement, the Group received a $60 million upfront cash payment plus an additional payment of $5 million related to the performance obligations under the contract. Applying the foreign exchange rate of June 1, 2022, the received payments represent €60.7 million. As the contract was accounted for in the functional currency of Immatics US, Inc., U.S. dollar, the € amount is subject to currency fluctuations. The Group identified the transfer of an exclusive right and license with the right to grant sublicenses under the Immatics Licensed IP, technology transfer, contractually agreed research and development services, including participation in Joint Steering Committee meetings and the delivery of research progress reports to BMS, as a combined performance obligation.

At inception of the Allogeneic ACT agreement, the Group determined the transaction price. The Group evaluated inclusion of the milestones as well as potential cost reimbursements as part of the transaction price under the most-likely method. Milestone payments are included at the most likely amount in the transaction price. However, variable consideration is only included in the transaction price to the extent that it is highly probable that a significant reversal in the amount of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur. For the contractual agreed milestone payments with BMS, the license is predominant. Based on that, the Group concluded that no variable consideration is considered as transaction price at contract inception. At the end of each reporting period, the Group re-evaluated the probability of achievement of milestones and, if necessary, adjusted its estimate of the overall transaction price.

The Group allocated the determined total transaction price of €66.1 million ($70.8 million), consisting of the received payments of €60.7 million ($65 million) as well as cost reimbursements, to the single combined performance obligation of the Allogeneic ACT agreement. Based on the facts mentioned above, the Group determined that the combined performance obligation related to promised research and development services is satisfied over time and therefore revenue will be recognized over time as costs for the research and development services incurred using a cost-to-cost method.

At inception of the Allogeneic ACT agreement, €60.7 million were initially deferred on the Group’s Consolidated Statement of Financial Position.

On December 12, 2024, we received the notice of termination by Bristol Myers Squibb for the collaboration regarding Allo (“BMS Allo”). The termination resulted in the recognition of the remaining deferred revenue of €33.1 million from the collaboration during the three months ended December 31, 2024.

For the year ended December 31, 2025 no revenue was recognized under the Allogeneic ACT agreement. During the year ended December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the Group recognized €41.1 million and €15.3 million of revenue on a cost-to-cost method associated with the upfront payment, respectively. Total deferred revenue under the agreement was €0.0 million as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, as well as 39.3 million as of December 31, 2023.

Revenue from collaboration agreements was realized with the following partners:

 

 

Year ended December 31,

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

2023

 

 

(Euros in thousands)

 

Revenue from collaboration agreements:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moderna, United States

 

 

37,247

 

 

 

62,785

 

 

 

5,369

 

BMS, United States

 

 

11,019

 

 

 

78,099

 

 

 

50,695

 

Genmab, Denmark

 

 

 

 

 

14,951

 

 

 

(2,067

)

Total

 

 

48,266

 

 

 

155,835

 

 

 

53,997

 

 

Deferred revenue related to the collaboration agreements consists of the following:

 

 

As of

 

 

December 31,
2025

 

 

December 31,
2024

 

 

(Euros in thousands)

 

Current

 

 

15,816

 

 

 

35,908

 

Non-current

 

 

18,541

 

 

 

34,161

 

Total

 

 

34,357

 

 

 

70,069