Key Takeaways
- Accel raised $160.0M (Series C) from Accel, Redpoint Ventures, NVIDIA Ventures (NVentures), Sequoia Capital, HV Capital, Meritech Capital, Visionaries Club.
- Sector: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Technology Software & Gaming.
- Geography: Germany.
Analysis
n8n has raised $180 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total funding to $240 million and valuing the company at $2.5 billion.
The round was led by Accel with participation from Meritech, Redpoint, Evantic and Visionaries Club. Strategic corporate investors including NVentures, T.Capital and existing backers like Felicis Ventures, Sequoia, Highland Europe and HV Capital also participated.
This funding validates a key truth in today’s market: the AI race is not just about smarter models, but about deploying intelligence reliably inside businesses.
The AI agent ecosystem is split. Some platforms let AI control everything via prompts, while others are purely rule-based systems requiring coding expertise. n8n was built for the middle ground, offering users the ability to define how much control or autonomy agents have and adjust that mix dynamically.
Controlling that balance is only the start. Bringing AI agents to production requires:
- Orchestration: integrating agents with tools, data sources, human oversight, monitoring and triggers.
- Coordination: enabling business users and developers to work together in real time on the same platform.
Without both, organizations face slow development cycles and siloed teams. n8n’s platform solves this by merging AI, code, and human collaboration into one process.
Since launching in 2019, n8n has grown from a simple automation tool to a full platform for AI orchestration and collaboration. Its open approach allows deployment in cloud, self-hosted environments, or even Raspberry Pi setups.
The platform powers workflows from home automations to enterprise-scale deployments at the United Nations. The company aims to become the default platform for building and deploying AI.
In 2025 alone, n8n achieved 6x user growth, 10x revenue growth, and launched key features like Evaluations and Data Tables. The new funding will support further expansion of integrations, empower its developer ecosystem, and evolve the platform to support different teams’ working styles.
n8n’s community is already transforming the platform into a broader ecosystem, with users building businesses around it. The company plans to invest in education, early feature access, partnerships and global community events.
Founder Jan Oberhauser started n8n to eliminate repetitive tasks. Now, the goal is to make AI agents as commonplace and essential as Excel. He sees a future where being a 10x operator with AI tools is standard—and n8n is the platform that makes it possible.