内容来源：https://blog.n8n.io/series-c/

内容总结：

近日，自动化与AI协调平台n8n宣布完成1.8亿美元C轮融资。本轮融资由Accel领投，Meritech、Redpoint等机构跟投，英伟达旗下风投NVentures等企业投资方也参与其中。至此，n8n融资总额达2.4亿美元，估值升至25亿美元。

当前AI领域竞争焦点已从模型能力转向实际落地应用。针对AI代理技术的两种主流路径——全自动提示模式与严格规则路由模式，n8n发现二者均存在局限性：前者在关键业务流程中稳定性不足，后者则面临迭代效率低的困境。

n8n创新性地提出"可控自主"解决方案，允许企业根据实际需求动态调整AI代理的自主权与规则约束。平台通过两大核心能力支撑AI应用落地：在业务流程层面实现系统工具与数据源的智能编排，在协作层面打通业务需求方与技术实施者的实时协同。

自2019年从自动化工具起步，n8n已发展为支持跨团队协作的AI协调平台。其突出优势体现在三个方面：持续壮大的开发者生态、支持多模型多部署环境的灵活架构，以及覆盖从个人开发者到联合国等国际组织的全场景应用能力。

在用户规模增长6倍、收入增长10倍的业绩支撑下，本轮融资将用于加速产品迭代：扩展系统集成能力，构建全球化节点开发生态，并针对不同团队工作习惯开发新型交互界面。平台在保持易用性的同时，正持续强化企业级部署能力。

正如电子表格软件已成为职场基础技能，n8n创始人展望未来指出：掌握AI协作平台将成为新一代职场核心竞争力，而n8n致力于成为AI应用构建的首选平台。

中文翻译：

我们刚刚完成1.8亿美元C轮融资，总融资额达2.4亿美元，估值突破25亿美元。本轮由Accel领投，Meritech、Redpoint、Evantic与Visionaries Club跟投。企业投资方NVentures（英伟达旗下风投机构）和T.Capital首次参与，现有投资方Felicis Ventures、红杉资本、Highland Europe及HV Capital也继续追加投资。

这笔融资印证了行业本质：人工智能竞赛不仅是模型智能度的比拼，更是看谁能将智能可靠落地于真实商业场景。当前AI智能体领域已分化为两大阵营：一类将全流程交由AI掌控，用户输入指令后听凭模型决策；另一类采用严格的规则路由，虽便于工程师编码操控，却难以满足业务人员快速迭代需求。

我们从用户实践中发现，两种极端模式均存在局限。纯自动化虽能创造惊喜，但在关键业务流程中过于不可控；纯规则化虽具可预测性，但每次调整都需开发介入且耗时良久。n8n正是为中间地带而生——让您自由调节智能体的自主权与逻辑约束的平衡点，并能随实践认知动态调整。

但掌握平衡仅是基础。要让智能体投入生产环境还需两大核心要素：
编排：连接实际工具与数据源，嵌入必要的人工监督，建立保障持续运行的监控与触发机制
协同：让懂业务需求者与技术构建者在同一平台上实时协作

缺少这两点，企业将陷入无尽开发循环——工程师闭门造车，业务人员反复测试，迭代进程迟滞。最终智能体永远无法投产，因为业务端与开发端始终存在协作壁垒。

我们验证的解决方案清晰直接：让人工智能、代码与人类在同一流程、同一平台上协同工作。技术构建者负责架构设计，领域专家进行配置优化——这种协同唯有在编排层具备随需演进的灵活性时才能真正实现。

我们的原则
自2019年创建n8n以来，我们从自动化工具演进为AI编排与跨团队协作平台。如今已成为用户公认能真正助力AI落地生产的平台。在高速成长的社区支持下，我们持续获得用户贡献的视频、模板、节点等资源——这个我们永远珍视且永不设限的社区。

灵活性始终是我们的产品核心：自由选择模型、无缝连接工具、支持多云/本地/树莓派/裸金属部署。产品既满足快速入门需求，又能驾驭编排与生俱来的复杂性。从家庭极客的智能灯控，到联合国关键任务的大规模流程——我们的愿景明确：让n8n成为AI构建与部署的首选平台。

未来规划
仅今年我们就实现用户增长6倍、收入增长10倍的突破，推出评估框架、数据表等重大功能。但一切才刚刚开始。行业在飞速演进，我们也在加速前进：本轮融资将用于扩展集成能力、建设节点开发生态、突破画布界面局限打造多元工作界面。我们既降低入门门槛，又增强大规模效能——这正是生产级AI的刚需。（诚聘英才！）

社区正推动n8n从平台向生态进化：越来越多人基于n8n创业，我们将通过教育赋能、功能内测、商业合作及趣味活动全力支持。我创立n8n的初心是消除重复劳动，让人们专注所爱。如今我预见这样的未来：运用AI智能体实现自我扩展、成为十倍效能的超级执行者，将如使用Excel般普及。正如早期掌握Excel是特殊技能，而今已成职场标配——AI能力进化亦将如此。而我的抱负，就是让n8n成为这个进化过程中的默认平台。

英文来源：

We just raised $180 million in Series C funding, bringing our total funding to $240 million and our valuation to $2.5 billion.
The round is led by Accel, with support from Meritech, Redpoint, Evantic and Visionaries Club. Corporate investors NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm) and T.Capital also join the round, with previous backers including Felicis Ventures, Sequoia, Highland Europe and HV Capital making follow-on investments as well
This investment recognises something fundamental: the AI race isn't only about smarter models - it's about who can actually put that intelligence to work reliably, inside actual businesses.
The AI agent landscape has split into two camps. Some platforms put everything in the hands of AI, you write prompts and hope for the best, with the entire logic determined by the model's interpretation. Others require strict, rule-based routing which is powerful for engineers who code every pathway, but impractical for business users who need to iterate quickly.
We've learnt from our community that neither extreme serves businesses well. Pure autonomy creates magic when it works but proves too unpredictable for business-critical workflows. Pure rule-based routing offers predictability but demands more time and often developers for every change.
n8n was built for the reality in between: giving flexible control over where your agents sit on this spectrum. You choose the balance - how much autonomy to grant, how much logic to enforce, and crucially, how to adjust that balance as you learn what works.
But controlling this balance is only the foundation. Getting agents into production requires two more crucial elements:
Orchestration: Connecting agents to your actual tools and data sources, building in human oversight where needed, and establishing the monitoring and triggers that keep everything running
Coordination: Bringing together the people who understand the business need with the builders who can make it work - on the same platform, in real time
Without both, organisations get stuck in endless development cycles. Engineers build in isolation, business users test and provide feedback, iterations drag on. The agent never reaches production because the people closest to the work can't collaborate effectively with those building the solution.
The formula we've proven is straightforward: combine AI, code, and humans in the same process, on the same platform. Technical builders handle architecture whilst domain experts configure and refine. That's coordination, and it only succeeds when the orchestration layer is flexible enough to evolve with your needs.
Our principles
We've been building n8n since 2019, first as an automation tool, then as a platform for AI orchestration and cross-team collaboration. Now we're the platform our community and enterprises tell us finally helps them deploy AI in production.
We've built this alongside a fast-growing community contributing videos, templates, nodes, and more. A community we'll never stop caring about or restrict access to. Ever.
Flexibility will always be a top product priority. Flexibility to pick any model, connect any tool, and deploy anywhere: our cloud, your server, a Raspberry Pi, or bare metal. Flexibility in the product so it's easy enough to make a quick start but robust enough to handle orchestration's natural complexity.
From tinkerers automating lights at home to the United Nations running mission-critical workflows at scale, our ambition is clear: n8n becomes the default platform to build with AI. And more importantly, to deploy AI.
What’s next
We've made so much progress this year alone: 6x user growth, 10x revenue growth, and major new features like Evaluations, Data Tables, and many more improvements. Yet it still feels early.
The industry is moving fast, and so are we. This funding accelerates our roadmap: expanding our integrations, empowering the ecosystem to build their own nodes and share them globally, and evolving n8n beyond the canvas into new interfaces that match how different teams work. We're making the platform easier to start with whilst more powerful at scale - because that's what production AI demands. (We're hiring!)
Our community is already pushing n8n from a platform into an ecosystem. We're rapidly seeing people build their own businesses around n8n, and we want to support the community to take this further: with education, early access to features, commercial partnerships, and fun events to bring everyone together.
I started n8n to remove repetitive tasks and focus on what I actually enjoyed. Now I see a world where building with AI, leveraging agents to scale yourself, and becoming a 10x operator becomes table stakes, just as using Excel is. The first people who knew Excel were special, but now it's a requirement for many roles.
The same will happen with AI. And my ambition is that n8n becomes the default platform to build with it.