Microtask
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Crowdsourcing |
| Founded | January 2009 |
| Founder | Ville Miettinen, Harri Holopainen, Otto Chrons, Panu Wilska |
| Headquarters | , |
| Website | microtask.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[1] to create a technology platform for crowdsourcing and distributed work.[2] The company went bankrupt 2021.[3]
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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]The National Library of Finland uses the Microtask Platform for outsourcing its digitization work to volunteers.[9][10]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Arctic Startup: Microtask closes a super seed round from Sunstone Capital followed by angels, August 24, 2010
- ^ New York Times: When the Assembly Line Moves Online, October 31, 2010
- ^ [1], Feb 16, 2023
- ^ Arctic Startup: Nordic Tech Tour Kicked Off Presenting The Top Firms In The Region, June 16, 2010
- ^ GigaOm: Is Microtask the Future of Work?Archived 2023-01-23 at the Wayback Machine, October 8, 2010
- ^ O'Reilly Radar: Crowdsourcing Specific Microtasks, October 25, 2010
- ^ NVIDIA press release: NVIDIA Corporation to Acquire Hybrid Graphics, March 22, 2006
- ^ India Times: Sasken acquires Finnish firm, July 26, 2006
- ^ Arctic Startup: Revamping the Finnish National Library Archived 2011-01-07 at the Wayback Machine, October 15, 2010
- ^ Arctic Startup: Microtask Launches Digitalkoot, A Service To Correct Digitized Finnish National Library Archives, February 8, 2011