N8n
Software company
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n8n GmbH (pronounced "n-eight-n"[3], short for "nodemation") is a German software company that provides a Visual programming language for automating workflows.[4][2][5] Their product has been termed a "low-code" and "fair code" form of workflow automation in the style of Dataflow programming.[2]
- Software as a service (SaaS)
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| Company type | GmbH; company with limited liability[1] |
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| Industry |
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| Genre | Task automation |
| Founded | 2019 |
| Founder | Jan Oberhauser  |
| Headquarters | , Germany |
Area served | worldwide |
Key people | Jan Oberhauser (founder, CEO as of April 2021)[2] |
| Products | n8n automation platform |
| Website | n8n |
The n8n platform (software/service) provides a visual node-based editor for automation involving other commercial and proprietary applications,[5][independent source needed] and supports both a self-hosted web service,[2][5] and a managed cloud computing service.[4]
Overview
As of December 2025, the n8n company's platform was being reported effective at linking and integrating data and functions "between more than 350 established applications", with latitude to also engage custom services and apps used within client organizations.[2] Between its October 2019 launch and April 2021, the community of members—developers and “citizen developers”—using the platform had grown to approximately 16,000.[2]
History
n8n GmbH was founded in 2019 by Jan Oberhauser, in Berlin, and launched its first version of its eponymous platform in October of that year.[2][4][6] In March 2020, n8n raised $1.5 million in seed funding co-led by Sequoia Capital and firstminute capital.[4] n8n raised a further $12 million in a Series A round, in April 2021, led by Felicis Ventures, with participation from Sequoia, firstminute, and Harpoon.[2] In March 2025, n8n closed a €55 million (≈$60 million) Series B round led by Highland Europe, joined by HV Capital and prior investors.[7]
In October 2025, n8n raised $180 million in a Series C round, bringing the company’s valuation to $2.5 billion; the round was led by Accel with participation from:
- Sequoia;
- Visionaries Club;
- Nvidia’s NVentures;
- Meritech Capital Partners;
- Redpoint Ventures;
- Evantic; and
- Deutsche Telekom’s T. Capital.[8]
Previous investors, including Felicis Ventures, Sequoia, Highland Europe, and HV Capital also participated in follow-on investments.[8]
Technology
The n8n platform is implemented using Node.js and TypeScript.[9] Workflows are modeled as directed graphs of nodes.[citation needed] For scale-out execution,[jargon][citation needed] queue mode runs worker processes that consume jobs from a broker; documentation variables[citation needed] and environment variables for this mode are provided for self-hosted deployments.[improper synthesis?][10][better source needed][independent source needed]
Licensing
n8n describes its licensing as fair-code, with the code published under the company’s Sustainable Use License (SUL), and it describes the SUL as allowing use, modification, and redistribution with specific limitations (for example, restricting use to internal business purposes); n8n states that it adopted the SUL in March 2022, replacing its prior Apache-2.0 + Commons Clause model.[11][non-primary source needed][independent source needed]
Further reading
- McFeetors, Jason & Pant, Tanay (February 2022). Rapid Product Development with n8n (PDF). Birmingham, England: n8n (imprint)-Packt Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-80181-736-3. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
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- Lunden, Ingrid (26 April 2021). "n8n Raises $12M for its 'Fair Code' Approach to Low-Code Workflow Automation". TechCrunch (TechCrunch.com). Retrieved 21 November 2025.
- Lunden, Ingrid (13 March 2020). "n8n, A 'Fair Code' Workflow Automation Platform, Raises Seed From Sequoia as VC Firm Steps up in Europe". TechCrunch (TechCrunch.com). Retrieved 21 November 2025.