n8nGmbH (pronounced "n-eight-n"[3]) is a company headquartered in Berlin, Germany, that has developed a "fair code" workflow automation platform that also goes by the company name, n8n.[4][2][5] Their approach to the n8n platform, the sole product focus, has been termed a "low-code" form of workflow automation.[2]
The n8n platform (software/service) provides a visual[6] 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 service.[4]
Overview
Since at least the early 2020s, one trend in technology innovation has been "to streamline how people work by creating better integrations between the different apps that they use".[4] 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 under the leadership of Jan Oberhauser, in Berlin, and launched its first version of its eponymous platform in October of that year.[2][4][7][5] 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. TechCrunch reported an implied valuation “in the region of €250–300 million.” Company communications at the time cited 200,000+ active users (and growth milestones).[8]
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:
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]
1234n8n Staff (21 September 2025). "Press: About n8n". n8n.io. Retrieved 21 September 2025. n8n is a free and open node-based Workflow Automation Tool. It can be self-hosted, easily extended, and used with third party web applications or custom in-house tools to automate repetitive tasks. With n8n, for the first time, people can move beyond simple integrations to build multi-step workflows that combine both 3rd party APIs and your own internal tools to create easy to use automations that snap together all the pieces of what would otherwise be very complex, disconnected systems. n8n is headquartered in Berlin and was founded by Jan Oberhauser in 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)[independent source needed]
↑n8n-io/n8n, n8n - Workflow Automation, 11 December 2025, retrieved 11 December 2025
↑n8n Staff (21 September 2025). "Hosting n8n: Scaling and performance—Queue mode". n8n.io. Retrieved 21 September 2025. Each worker is its own Node.js instance, running in main mode, but able to handle multiple simultaneous workflow executions due to their high IOPS (input-output operations per second)... This is the process flow: 1. The main n8n instance handles timers and webhook calls, generating (but not running) a workflow execution. 2. It passes the execution ID to a message broker, Redis, which maintains the queue of pending executions and allows the next available worker to pick them up.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)[non-primary source needed]
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