Microtask was a Finnish technology company founded by Ville Miettinen, Harri Holopainen, Otto Chrons and Panu Wilska in 2009Arctic Startup: Microtask closes a super seed round from Sunstone Capital followed by angels
August 24, 2010 to create a technology platform for

crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing involves a large group of dispersed participants contributing or producing goods or services—including ideas, votes, micro-tasks, and finances—for payment or as volunteers. Contemporary crowdsourcing often involves digit ...

and distributed work. The company went bankrupt 2021.
Feb 16, 2023 The company was headquartered in

Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...

, and had offices in

Tampere Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...

and

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. 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 Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronics, electronic or machine, mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo ...

People

CEO Ville Miettinen and Managing Director Harri Holopainen were co-founders of

Hybrid Graphics AMD Hybrid Graphics technology is a collective brand from AMD for features of its Radeon line of discrete and integrated GPUs, promoting higher performance and productivity while reducing energy consumption. The technology previously applied t ...

, a Finnish graphics technology company acquired by

NVIDIA Nvidia Corporation ( ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware. Founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang (president and CEO), Chris Malachowsky, and Curti ...

in 2006.

press release
''NVIDIA Corporation to Acquire Hybrid Graphics''
March 22, 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 The National Library of Finland (, ) is the foremost research library in Finland. Administratively the library is part of the University of Helsinki. From 1919 to 1 August 2006, it was known as the Helsinki University Library (). The Nationa ...

uses the Microtask Platform for outsourcing its digitization work to volunteers.Arctic Startup: Microtask Launches Digitalkoot, A Service To Correct Digitized Finnish National Library Archives
February 8, 2011

References

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External links

Official Microtask Website
Crowdsourcing Outsourcing companies Software companies of Finland Software companies established in 2009 Finnish companies established in 2009