June 15, 2009 – deutsche-startups.de
One million euro has been invested by the High-Tech Start-up Fund, Seed Capital Dortmund and the ERP-Start Fund of the KfW in Dortmund start-up company humangrid, a crowdsourcing platform for online data processing.
Please read the complete article at deutsche-startups.de – in German.
June 2, 2009 – humangrid
Capital investors believe in crowdsourcing and expand their investment in the industrialization of media processing. The Dortmund company humangrid GmbH has received around one million euro from financial investors for the expansion of its business model.
Please read and download humangrid’s complete press release – in German.
August 1, 2008 – Gartner
Gartner defines crowdsourcing as the outsourcing of data assignments to a large number of workers. Gartner judges especially media processing like image classification to be particularly suitable for crowdsourcing. The overall potential is rated by Gartner as very high.
July 1, 2008 – Computerwoche.de German
Computerweek evaluates humangrid as one of the most useful German websites.
Please read the complete article in Computerwoche – in German.
April 30, 2008 – BMWi
Parliamentary undersecretary Mrs. Dagmar Wöhrl acknowledges humangrid as one of three companies from the portfolio of the High-Tech Gründerfonds at the VDI Start-up congress in Berlin.
Please read the complete press release of the German Ministry of Commerce – in German.