- Founded
- 2019
- Headquarters
- Berlin, Germany
- Employees
- 501-1,000
- Latest Round
- Series C
- Est. Valuation
- ~$2,500M
Investment Thesis
n8n is an open-source platform for creating automation workflows that combines AI, code, and human building blocks. Founded in 2019 by Jan Oberhauser, the company uses a 'fair-code' licensing model that blends open-source access with commercial sustainability, allowing users to self-host or use the managed cloud service.
The platform has seen explosive growth with 6x user growth and 10x revenue growth in 2025, reaching $40M ARR. n8n enables teams to build complex automation pipelines that connect hundreds of apps, trigger AI workflows, and orchestrate multi-step processes. The platform is particularly popular among developers and technical teams who want full control over their automation infrastructure.
Business teams need to connect apps and automate workflows but are stuck between no-code tools that are too limited (Zapier) and code-first solutions that require engineering resources they can't get on the roadmap.
n8n is an open-source workflow automation platform that gives technical users full code flexibility while remaining visual and accessible enough for power users — the sweet spot between Zapier's simplicity and custom engineering.
60,000+ GitHub stars, 200,000+ self-hosted instances, and a fast-growing cloud business; n8n's AI agent workflow capabilities have made it the go-to platform for teams building production AI automations.
AI agents need orchestration infrastructure to connect to real-world systems, and n8n's extensible node-based architecture is perfectly positioned as the execution layer for AI-driven workflows — a massive TAM expansion beyond traditional automation.