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]
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]
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.
The National Library of Finland uses the Microtask Platform for outsourcing its digitization work to volunteers.[9][10]
