Our Investment in n8n: The AI platform for automation

Enterprises have reached a tipping point in their AI investments. Pilots are widespread, but most companies have yet to translate those experiments into full workflow transformations. Their ability to capture the value that AI promises depends on integrating an increasing number of task and function-specific AI agents and systems across their businesses. 

n8n has built the missing piece that enterprises need in order to translate their AI investments into real, durable value for their organizations. Its central system of record enables companies to build, evaluate, observe, and orchestrate agentic automations across their global operations, all while integrating directly into their existing workflows through over 1,000 native integrations, APIs, ETL connectors, and MCPs.

Today, we’re pleased to announce that Accel has led the Series C in n8n’s AI-native workflow automation platform. This funding round follows explosive, capital-efficient growth over the past year that has seen n8n become the underlying infrastructure for orchestrating and integrating agents into leading enterprises. We’re grateful to be joined by a variety of angels and strategic partners, including CrowdStrike’s George Kurtz, NVIDIA’s NVentures, and Deutsche Telekom’s T.Capital.

Previous generations of automation software relied on “if this, then that” deterministic logic. It’s a fundamental mismatch for agentic AI workflows, and diminishes the potential value LLMs promise. n8n has built the automation and orchestration layer for the AI era: today, more than 80% of workflows built on n8n embed AI agents.

n8n has dramatically expanded the share of work that can be automated. Teams can fully customize workflows, mixing AI agents with deterministic steps and team inputs where required. The range of use cases on n8n is vast: AI builders define full backend logic. Fortune 500 companies standardize operations spanning IT, finance, marketing automation, and security orchestration. System integrators have transformed customer support, sales, and DevOps with easy AI automations. No matter where customers are on their AI journey, n8n makes it easy to unlock real value and efficiency gains.   

What truly sets n8n apart is its radically open “Fair Code” model and the community it has inspired. n8n has become a Top 50 GitHub Project with over 145,000 stars, and is now supported by a vibrant community of more than 700,000 active developers. n8n users also tend to be n8n evangelists: extending it through workflow templates and integrations, and spreading the word across online forums. Community members now organize over 60 community events around the world each year.  In this, we’ve recognized a similarity with some of Accel’s most notable investments – Atlassian, Slack, Vercel, Webflow –  that built effusive, loyal communities centered around great products.  

At Accel, we’ve long believed in partnering with the builders creating the foundational tools powering software. Accel portfolio companies Cursor, Linear, Lovable, Supabase and Vercel are rapidly defining the next-gen AI stack. n8n is the next step of this thesis, providing the open, community-first operating system to embed AI into daily work. We’re grateful to Jan and his team for trusting Accel as a partner for their next phase of global growth and we look forward to the remarkable journey ahead.