# Jan Oberhauser

> Jan Oberhauser is a pre-seed investor at n8n backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [n8n](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/n8n-io)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janoberhauser
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/JanOberhauser
- Website: https://x.com/JanOberhauser

Jan Oberhauser is a pre-seed investor at n8n in Berlin focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Jan Oberhauser is the Founder and CEO of n8n.io. He previously worked at link.fish as Founder. Jan attended Stuttgart Media University, where he studied Audiovisual Media, and the Scientific-Technical Academy Prof. Dr. Grübler, Isny, where he trained as an Assistant for Information and Communication Technology.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$8.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.2M–$3.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 58% |
| Software | 5 | 42% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 42% |
| Open Source | 3 | 25% |
| B2B | 2 | 17% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 50% |
| Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 8 | 67% |
| United States | 2 | 17% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| Israel | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Augustus | Augustus builds an AI-native, stablecoin-based clearing and banking platform for financial institutions. The company focuses on enabling digital asset and stablecoin-based clearing to support payments and banking workflows. Its platform is designed for banks, fintechs, and other regulated financial institutions that require infrastructure fordigital asset transactions. Augustus integrates artificial intelligence into its systems to support automated processes and decisioning around payments and clearing. The company positions its offerings as core banking and payments infrastructure centered on digital assets rather than traditional legacy systems. | $180M | Series B | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| cognee inc | cognee helps you create a GraphRAG and supports Vector Stores, Graph stores, and various LLM providers | $7.5M | Seed | Feb 19, 2026 |  |
| Qontext | Qontext is an AI platform that acts as a unified context layer for businesses. It ingests data from tools like HubSpot, Notion, and Google Drive, automatically structuring it into dynamic "Context Vaults"—living knowledge graphs that capture entity relationships and stay updated without manual effort. | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | Feb 05, 2026 |  |
| United Manufacturing Hub | UMH is the Open-Source IIoT company. We create the place to be for Industrial IoT engineers by empowering them to scale their industrial IoT infrastructure. We do this by providing our management SaaS, our Open-Source IaaC and our active and fast growing community. | $5.8M | Seed | Jan 08, 2026 |  |
| Keep | Keep is an open-source alerting tool for developers. | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | Oct 16, 2024 |  |
| NetBird | Wiretrustee is an open-source VPN platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home. It requires zero configuration effort leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, and so forth. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | May 03, 2023 |  |
| Webstudio | Webstudio is an open source website builder that helps creators to build highly maintainable and fast websites. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| Tilores | TiloRes is a serverless, graph-like entity-resolution technology that was originally developed for a consumer credit bureau active in eCommerce risk and fraud prevention. The technology addresses several big challenges: how to connect, and deduplicate high-volume, high-velocity data from disparate sources to individual entities, in real-time, in amanner that still allows high speed search performance and alerting with low variable costs. | $1.3M | Seed | Jan 27, 2022 |  |
| Twain | Twain is the world’s most accurate deep research for GTM Agents and B2B outreach. It replaces generic templates with real-time research to generate unique 1:1 multi-channel sequences that scale. By identifying and verifying signals like job changes and company news in real-time, Twain ensures outreach is never based on outdated or hallucinateddata.Unlike general LLMs, Twain utilizes a proprietary multi-agent safety net to ensure 100% factual accuracy. Twain provides detailed proof and citations for every research point discovered. This allows revenue teams to scale personalized communication while protecting brand reputation and ensuring high deliverability. Twain provides two APIs: one to generate research-backed 1:1 outreach for inbound and outbound workflows and another one to enable sales teams with real-time deep research on account and lead level Twain was founded in 2021 by Mohamed Chahin and is backed by Sequoia Capital, TQ Ventures, and System.One. Twain was founded in 2021 and is backed by Sequoia Capital, TQ Ventures, and System.One. | $554.8K | Angel | Dec 24, 2021 |  |
| Passionfroot | Passionfroot develops creator marketing software that helps businesses discover creators, manage campaigns, process payments, and measure campaign performance. Its platform uses artificial intelligence to support campaign planning, creator matching, outreach, workflow management, analytics, and reporting across social media and content platforms. | $3.4M | Pre-Seed | Dec 15, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiny-vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Tiny VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiny-super-computer-investment-company) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Runa Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/runa-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Acequia Capital (AceCap)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acequia-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Archimedes New Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archimedes-new-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About n8n

VC Fund · Berlin, Germany

n8n is a free and open node-based Workflow Automation Tool. It can be self-hosted, easily extended, and used with third party web applications or custom in-house tools to automate repetitive tasks. With n8n, for the first time, people can move beyond simple integrations to build multi-step workflows that combine both 3rd party APIs and your owninternal tools to create easy to use automations that snap together all the pieces of what would otherwise be very complex, disconnected systems. n8n is headquartered in Berlin and was founded by Jan Oberhauser in 2019.

3 contacts available at n8n.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jan Oberhauser | Founder/CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-oberhauser |
| Daniel Liem | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-liem |
| Matt Miller | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-miller-6 |

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## FAQ

### What does Jan Oberhauser invest in?

Jan Oberhauser invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Jan Oberhauser's check size?

Jan Oberhauser typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$8.5M at Seed and $1.2M–$3.4M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jan Oberhauser participates in.

### When did Jan Oberhauser last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jan Oberhauser closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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