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Microtask

FieldValue
logo[[File:microtask logo.jpgcenterMicrotask logo220px]]
typePrivate
foundationJanuary 2009
founderVille Miettinen, Harri Holopainen, Otto Chrons, Panu Wilska
location_cityHelsinki
location_countryFinland
industryCrowdsourcing
homepagemicrotask.com (now used by a different company)

Microtask was a Finnish technology company founded by Ville Miettinen, Harri Holopainen, Otto Chrons and Panu Wilska in 2009 to create a technology platform for crowdsourcing and distributed work. The company went bankrupt 2021.

The company was headquartered in Helsinki, and had offices in Tampere and San Francisco.

Microtask was selected as one of the finalists of the Nordic Tech Tour 2010.

Products

Microtask Platform is a software platform for global distribution of short-duration tasks to online workers. The system supports automated quality assurance and provides service-level agreements for task quality and turnaround times. The most notable use case for such tasks has been human-assisted optical character recognition.

People

CEO Ville Miettinen and Managing Director Harri Holopainen were co-founders of Hybrid Graphics, a Finnish graphics technology company acquired by NVIDIA in 2006. CTO Otto Chrons was the co-founder and CTO of Ionific (merged with Botnia Hightech and acquired by Sasken Communication Technologies).

The company is funded by private investors and the venture fund Sunstone Capital, which is represented by board member Nikolaj Nyholm, a Danish serial technology entrepreneur and investor.

Customers

The National Library of Finland uses the Microtask Platform for outsourcing its digitization work to volunteers.

References

References

  1. [http://www.arcticstartup.com/2010/08/24/microtask-closes-a-super-seed-round-from-sunstone-capital-followed-by-angels Arctic Startup: Microtask closes a super seed round from Sunstone Capital followed by angels], August 24, 2010
  2. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/business/31digi.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=microtask&st=cse New York Times: When the Assembly Line Moves Online], October 31, 2010
  3. [https://konkurssit.com], Feb 16, 2023
  4. [http://www.arcticstartup.com/2010/06/15/nordic-tech-tour-kicked-off-presenting-the-top-firms-in-the-region Arctic Startup: Nordic Tech Tour Kicked Off Presenting The Top Firms In The Region], June 16, 2010
  5. [http://gigaom.com/2010/10/08/is-microtask-the-future-of-work/ GigaOm: Is Microtask the Future of Work?]{{webarchive. link. (2023-01-23 , October 8, 2010)
  6. [http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/crowdsourcing-specific-microtasks.html O'Reilly Radar: Crowdsourcing Specific Microtasks], October 25, 2010
  7. [[NVIDIA]] press release: [http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_30518.html ''NVIDIA Corporation to Acquire Hybrid Graphics''], March 22, 2006
  8. [http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1812910.cms India Times: Sasken acquires Finnish firm], July 26, 2006
  9. [http://www.arcticstartup.com/2010/10/15/revamping-the-finnish-national-library Arctic Startup: Revamping the Finnish National Library] {{webarchive. link. (2011-01-07 , October 15, 2010)
  10. [http://www.arcticstartup.com/2011/02/08/microtask-launches-digitalkoot-a-service-to-correct-digitized-finnish-national-library-archives Arctic Startup: Microtask Launches Digitalkoot, A Service To Correct Digitized Finnish National Library Archives], February 8, 2011
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