Microtask is a Finnish technology company founded by

Ville Miettinen Ville Ilmari Miettinen (born June 5, 1975 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Finnish serial entrepreneur and computer programmer. Miettinen was the co-founder and CTO of Hybrid Graphics, a graphics technology company acquired by NVIDIA in 2006.NVIDIA ...

, 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 digita ...

and distributed work. The company is headquartered in

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

, and has offices in

Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...

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 electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scen ...

People

CEO

and Managing Director Harri Holopainen were co-founders of

Hybrid Graphics AMD Hybrid Graphics technology, is a collective brand from AMD for its Radeon line of discrete and integrated GPU, promoting higher performance and productivity while saving energy consumption in GPUs. The technology previously applied to selec ...

, a Finnish graphics technology company acquired by

NVIDIA Nvidia CorporationOfficially written as NVIDIA and stylized in its logo as VIDIA with the lowercase "n" the same height as the uppercase "VIDIA"; formerly stylized as VIDIA with a large italicized lowercase "n" on products from the mid 1990s to ...

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 Sasken Technologies Limited (formerly Sasken Communication Technologies Limited) is an Indian multinational technology company, based in Bangalore, India, which provides product engineering and digital transformation services to global custom ...

). The company is funded by private investors and the venture fund Sunstone Capital, which is represented by board member

Nikolaj Nyholm Nikolaj Nyholm (born 13 September 1975) is a Danish serial technology entrepreneur and investor from Copenhagen, Denmark. He has founded four technology startups that have pioneered different domains, is an advisor to Minecraft creator Mojang, wa ...

, a Danish serial technology entrepreneur and investor.

Customers

The

National Library of Finland The National Library of Finland ( fi, Kansalliskirjasto, sv, Nationalbiblioteket) 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 ...

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