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.

[3] The company was headquartered in Helsinki, and had offices in Tampere and San Francisco.

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

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.