n8n GmbH (pronounced "n-eight-n", short for "nodemation") is a German software company that provides a Visual programming language for automating workflows. Their product has been termed a "low-code" and "fair code" form of workflow automation in the style of Dataflow programming.
The n8n platform (software/service) provides a visual node-based editor for automation involving other commercial and proprietary applications, and supports both a self-hosted web service, and a managed cloud computing service.
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. Between its October 2019 launch and April 2021, the community of membersâÂÂdevelopers and âÂÂcitizen developersâÂÂâÂÂusing the platform had grown to approximately 16,000.
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. In March 2020, n8n raised $1.5 million in seed funding co-led by Sequoia Capital and firstminute capital. 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. In March 2025, n8n closed a â¬55 million (âÂÂ$60 million) Series B round led by Highland Europe, joined by HV Capital and prior investors.
In October 2025, n8n raised $180 million in a Series C round, bringing the companyâÂÂs valuation to $2.5 billion; the round was led by Accel with participation from:
Previous investors, including Felicis Ventures, Sequoia, Highland Europe, and HV Capital also participated in follow-on investments.
The n8n platform is implemented using Node.js and TypeScript. Workflows are modeled as directed graphs of nodes. For scale-out execution, queue mode runs worker processes that consume jobs from a broker; documentation variables and environment variables for this mode are provided for self-hosted deployments.
n8n describes its licensing as fair-code, with the code published under the companyâÂÂs 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.