n8n
Worth-Joining Index · Scorecard
v2.1 ALPHA · 2026-08Career Score
—/100
Coverage
66%
Verified
29%
Stage cohort
Early
Vibe Check
🎪 community voting coming soon
Latest valuation
$2.5B (Series C, 2025-10)
Total raised
$240M total raised (as of Series C, 2025-10)
Traction · Key numbers
Funding
Total raised
$240M total raised (as of Series C, 2025-10)
Rounds
2
Valuation pace
Valuation moved from Series B to $2.5B in 7 months
$180M
Series C · 2025-10 · valuation $2.5B post (Series C, 2025-10) · led by Accel
With: Meritech, Redpoint, NVentures (NVIDIA), T.Capital, Sequoia · Brings total funding to $240M; funds earmarked for deepening AI capabilities and US expansion
€55M
Series B · 2025-03 · led by Highland Europe
With: HV Capital, Sequoia, Felicis, Harpoon · ARR grew 5x in a year; over 200,000 active users
▸Extremely fast valuation pace: B round to $2.5B C round in 7 months signals a bet on the AI-automation boom, but it also raises the bar for matching growth going forward
▸NVentures (NVIDIA) joining as an investor is a clear AI-infrastructure endorsement, not just a financial bet
▸Accel leading the C round suggests top-tier confidence in n8n's repositioning from traditional iPaaS tool to 'AI agent orchestration' platform
Founders
Jan Oberhauser CEO
Before founding n8n, worked as a VFX engineer at Academy Award-winning studios designing production pipelines for hundreds of artists
Reality · Working here
Signals & Risks
Editorial ✎
Good fit for
· Engineers who enjoy open-source community work and are comfortable building under a fair-code license
· People who resonate with the hybrid product philosophy of 'visual workflow + code-level control'
· Those wanting early exposure to the AI-agent-orchestration wave without betting on a pure closed-source SaaS
Not for
· Those seeking a purely predictable, corporate-style management structure — founder style and open-source community culture shape a lot here
· People who don't believe in the 'open-source core + monetized add-ons' model and only want to build closed-source product
Ask in the interview
1. Valuation jumped from Series B to $2.5B in 7 months — how does the company justify this isn't pure narrative froth, and what's the growth curve targeted for the next round?
2. Zapier and Make are also racing to add AI features — is n8n's moat really the open-source ecosystem, self-hosting capability, or something else?
3. Founder Jan Oberhauser is both CEO and the core of product vision — how does the org handle the single-founder dependency risk in decision-making?
Data changelog
Community corrections → editorial review → applied, fully on the record
data as of 2025-10 · Source: n8n blog ↗
data as of 2025-10 · Source: n8n blog ↗
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