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About n8n
n8n is an AI orchestration platform that transforms how organizations harness AI and embed it in their daily operations. Built on a fair-code license, n8n serves thousands of organizations worldwide, from individual developers to global enterprises, enabling them to create intelligent, automated AI workflows that deliver measurable benefits to impact and productivity.
n8n is headquartered in Berlin and was founded by Jan Oberhauser in 2019.
Facts at a glance
- Founded: 2019 in Berlin by Jan Oberhauser, Founder and CEO
- License: fair-code (Sustainable Use License); the source is on GitHub
- Funding: $240 million raised to date from Accel, Sequoia, Highland Europe, Felicis Ventures, HV Capital, Meritech, Redpoint, Evantic, Visionaries Club, NVentures (NVIDIA) and T.Capital (Deutsche Telekom), plus a strategic investment from SAP
- Valuation: $5.2 billion (May 2026)
Milestones
- March 2020: $1.5 million seed round led by Sequoia
- April 2021: $12 million Series A led by Felicis Ventures
- March 2025: $60 million Series B led by Highland Europe
- October 2025: $180 million Series C led by Accel, valuing n8n at $2.5 billion
- May 2026: strategic investment by SAP at a $5.2 billion valuation; n8n to be embedded in SAP Joule Studio
Coverage
- n8n boss: 'Our goal is to get to 1bn users with fewer than 1,000 employees' — Sifted, September 2026
- "It can literally kill your company": n8n's case for model-agnostic AI — The Next Web, July 2026
- SAP invests in AI startup n8n, doubling valuation to $5.2 billion — Bloomberg, May 2026
- SAP invests: n8n becomes one of the most valuable German AI startups — heise online, May 2026
- The EU-Startups Podcast: interview with Jan Oberhauser, Founder and CEO of n8n — EU-Startups, March 2026
- "I definitely want a European listing," says Nvidia-backed n8n CEO — Tech.eu, December 2025
- Berliner KI-Firma N8N ist jetzt 2,5 Milliarden Dollar wert — Handelsblatt, October 2025
- Hyped AI business automation startup n8n raises $180M, valuing it at $2.5BN — Tech.eu, October 2025
- Fair-code pioneer n8n raises $60M for AI-powered workflow automation — TechCrunch, March 2025
Company announcements
Our name
n8n is always written in lowercase and pronounced "n eight n".
While looking for a good name for the project with a free domain, Jan quickly realized that all the good ones he could think of were already taken. So, in the end, he chose nodemation. 'node-' in the sense that it uses a Node-View and that it uses Node.js and '-mation' for 'automation' which is what the project is supposed to help with. However, he did not like how long the name was and could not imagine writing something that long every time in the CLI. That is when he ended up on 'n8n'.