ville miettinen harri holopainen otto chrons panu wilska headquarters helsinki finland website microtask.com microtask is 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 is headquartered in helsinki and has offices in tampere and san francisco . microtask was selected as one of the finalists of the nordic tech tour 2010 . 3 contents 1 products 2 people 3 customers 4 references 5 external links products edit 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 . 4 the most notable use case for such tasks has been human assisted optical character recognition . 5 people edit ceo ville miettinen and managing director harri holopainen were co founders of hybrid graphics a finnish graphics technology company acquired by nvidia in 2006 . 6 cto otto chrons was the co founder and cto of ionific merged with botnia hightech and acquired by sasken communication technologies 7 . 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 the national library of finland uses the microtask platform for outsourcing its digitization work to volunteers . 8 9 references edit 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 arctic startup nordic tech tour kicked off presenting the top firms in the region june 16 2010 gigaom is microtask the future of work 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 october 15 2010 arctic startup microtask launches digitalkoot a service to correct digitized finnish national library archives february 8 2011 external links edit official microtask website official microtask blog digitalkoot site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title microtask & oldid 647144692 categories crowdsourcingoutsourcing companiessoftware companies of finlandcompanies established in 2009 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 20 10 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view