Microtask

Microtask was a Finnish technology company founded by Ville Miettinen, Harri Holopainen, Otto Chrons and Panu Wilska in 2009[1] to create a technology platform for crowdsourcing and distributed work.[2] The company went bankrupt 2021.[3]

Microtask
TypePrivate
IndustryCrowdsourcing
FoundedJanuary 2009
FounderVille Miettinen, Harri Holopainen, Otto Chrons, Panu Wilska
Headquarters
Helsinki
,
Finland
Websitemicrotask.com (now used by a different company)

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.[4]

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.[5] The most notable use case for such tasks has been human-assisted optical character recognition.[6]

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.[7] CTO Otto Chrons was the co-founder and CTO of Ionific (merged with Botnia Hightech and acquired by Sasken Communication Technologies[8]).

The company is funded by private investors and the venture fund Sunstone Capital,[1] 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.[9][10]

References
  1. Arctic Startup: Microtask closes a super seed round from Sunstone Capital followed by angels, August 24, 2010
  2. New York Times: When the Assembly Line Moves Online, October 31, 2010
  3. , Feb 16, 2023
  4. Arctic Startup: Nordic Tech Tour Kicked Off Presenting The Top Firms In The Region, June 16, 2010
  5. GigaOm: Is Microtask the Future of Work?, October 8, 2010
  6. O'Reilly Radar: Crowdsourcing Specific Microtasks, October 25, 2010
  7. NVIDIA press release: NVIDIA Corporation to Acquire Hybrid Graphics, March 22, 2006
  8. India Times: Sasken acquires Finnish firm, July 26, 2006
  9. Arctic Startup: Revamping the Finnish National Library Archived 2011-01-07 at the Wayback Machine, October 15, 2010
  10. Arctic Startup: Microtask Launches Digitalkoot, A Service To Correct Digitized Finnish National Library Archives, February 8, 2011
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