n8n company profile: valuation, funding & revenue

This n8n company profile covers the company's valuation, revenue, funding rounds, investors and history. n8n works in developer tools, with a focus on workflow automation and AI agents. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Its latest valuation on record is US$5.2 billion (May 2026). Every figure links to a public source, and anything the company hasn't disclosed is marked as such.

Revenue

Funding history

n8n timeline

Key dates from the sources on this page, oldest first. Metric snapshots are listed after the funding events.

• 2019 — n8n is founded in Berlin by Jan Oberhauser (CEO).
• Mar 2025 — Series B: €55M. Investors: Highland Europe (lead).
• Oct 2025 — Series C: US$180M, valuing the company at US$2.5B. Investors: Accel (lead); Nvidia (NVentures) and others.
• May 2026 — Strategic investment (secondary): Not disclosed, valuing the company at US$5.2B. Investors: SAP.
• May 2026 — Usage: 1.7 million active developers a month and more than 1,400 enterprise customers.
• May 2026 — SAP partnership: n8n to be embedded natively in SAP's Joule Studio agent-building environment.

Investors

Overview

n8n (pronounced "n-eight-n", short for "nodemation") is a workflow automation platform. Teams use it to connect apps and data, for example taking new leads from a web form, enriching them, adding them to a CRM, notifying sales in Slack and sending a follow-up email, without writing a full application. Since 2023 it has become one of the most popular tools for building AI agents and AI-powered workflows, combining large language models with hundreds of integrations and custom code where needed.

Jan Oberhauser founded n8n in Berlin in 2019. He had previously worked as a visual effects artist and technical director on films, where he built automation pipelines, and created n8n as a side project before turning it into a company. n8n uses a "fair-code" licence: its source code is available and it can be self-hosted, but commercial use is restricted in some ways, which differs from traditional open source.

Why developers like it

• Visual plus code: workflows are built visually, but developers can add JavaScript or Python at any step, giving more flexibility than pure no-code tools.
• Self-hosting: companies can run n8n on their own servers, keeping data in-house, which matters for regulated industries and European data rules.
• AI agents: built-in nodes for language models, memory, tools and vector databases make it easy to build agents that take actions in other systems.
• Pricing: n8n charges by workflow executions rather than individual steps, which can make complex automations cheaper than on rivals.

Growth

n8n's growth accelerated sharply with the AI wave. In March 2025, it reported more than 200,000 active users and annual recurring revenue up five times in a year. By May 2026, it said 1.7 million developers were active on the platform each month and it had more than 1,400 enterprise customers. Investor HV Capital said in 2026 that n8n had passed €100 million in ARR; the company itself hasn't published audited figures, so we show revenue as not disclosed.

Funding

• March 2025, Series B: €55 million led by Highland Europe.
• October 2025, Series C: US$180 million at a US$2.5 billion post-money valuation, led by Accel with participation from Nvidia's venture arm NVentures.
• May 2026, SAP strategic investment: SAP bought shares through a secondary sale at a US$5.2 billion valuation, doubling n8n's value in seven months, alongside a multi-year commercial partnership. The amount wasn't disclosed; German press reported SAP's stake at roughly 1.3%.

Earlier investors include Sequoia Capital, Felicis and HV Capital.

The SAP partnership

As part of the 2026 deal, SAP will embed n8n natively into Joule Studio, its environment for building AI agents within SAP's business software. That gives n8n access to SAP's enormous enterprise customer base and positions it as a connector between SAP systems and the many other tools companies use. For SAP, it adds a widely used automation layer without building one from scratch.

Competition

n8n competes with Zapier and Make in workflow automation, with Microsoft Power Automate and other enterprise integration platforms, with AI agent frameworks such as LangChain, and with newer AI-native automation startups. Its advantages are flexibility for technical users, self-hosting, its large community and template library, and now its SAP relationship.

n8n at a glance

n8n is a Berlin workflow automation and AI agent platform founded in 2019 by Jan Oberhauser. It raised €55 million in March 2025 and US$180 million at US$2.5 billion in October 2025, led by Accel, then received a strategic investment from SAP at US$5.2 billion in May 2026. It reports 1.7 million monthly active developers and more than 1,400 enterprise customers.

Fair-code versus open source

Traditional open-source licences let anyone use, modify and sell software, including competitors who might offer it as a paid service. n8n's "Sustainable Use License" keeps the code visible and free for internal use and self-hosting, but prevents others from selling n8n itself as a commercial service. Supporters say this protects the company's ability to fund development; critics argue it isn't truly open source. For most companies using n8n internally, the distinction rarely matters, but it does shape how cloud providers and resellers can offer it.

Community-led growth

Much of n8n's growth has come from its community: users share thousands of workflow templates, create tutorials, and recommend it on social media and developer forums. AI automation became a popular topic among creators and consultants, many of whom built businesses around n8n workflows. That word-of-mouth lowers acquisition costs and creates a pipeline of users who later bring n8n into their employers.

Choosing an automation platform

• Do you need self-hosting or strict data residency?
• Will developers need to add custom code to workflows?
• How does pricing scale with the number and complexity of workflows?
• Which apps and AI models do you need to connect?

AI agents in everyday operations

Many n8n users now build agents that handle real business tasks: triaging support emails, summarising documents and filing them in the right place, qualifying sales leads, monitoring systems and opening tickets. Because n8n connects to hundreds of business apps, an agent built with it can read and update data across a company's tools, with humans approving important actions. Templates shared by the community make it quick to get started, even for teams with little automation experience.

Next developments

Watch the rollout of the SAP integration, enterprise adoption, ARR disclosures, new AI agent features and any future funding or IPO plans.

Practical notes

Operations and IT teams can automate repetitive processes and build AI agents without full software projects. Developers get a flexible tool that can run on their own infrastructure. Investors should watch whether SAP's partnership translates into large enterprise contracts.

Latest developments (October 2026)

SAP made a strategic investment in n8n in May 2026 that doubled its valuation to US$5.2 billion, and agreed to embed n8n into its Joule Studio agent platform under a multi-year partnership, according to a company press release. The Berlin company's previous round, in October 2025, valued it at US$2.5 billion. See our largest German startups guide.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from the public sources below. Where sources disagreed, we used the company's own announcement or a primary news report. Private-company data changes; check the date beside each figure.

1. Tech.eu
2. Yahoo Finance
3. SiliconANGLE
4. EU-Startups