Thinglink

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{{Infobox company

| name = ThingLink Oy

| type = Private

| foundation = 2010

| location = Palo Alto, California

| key_people = Ulla Koivula, CEO, Alexey Solomatin Head of Product

| industry = Internet Technology Education Technology

| products = Interactive media editor, virtual tour creator.

| num_employees = 14 (2019)

| homepage = [http://www.thinglink.com/ www.thinglink.com]

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Thinglink, also known as Thinglink Oy in Finland and Thinglink Incorporated in the United States of America, is an education and media technology company, based in Palo Alto, California, founded by Ulla-Maaria Koivula (Engeström).{{Cite web|url=https://en.unesco.org/news/2018-ict-education-prize-laureate-thinglink-releases-free-360-images-unesco-world-heritage|title=2018 ICT in Education Prize laureate ThingLink releases free 360 images to UNESCO world heritage sites|date=2019-04-17|website=UNESCO|language=en|access-date=2020-01-27}}

The company, Thinglink, began from the idea of connecting objects in our physical environment to digital information about them, and making the process easy for everyone to perform. Over the years, the company's primary concept expanded to using digital objects, and virtual tours, to access simulations of places and situations in the physical world.

In 2018, Thinglink was awarded the UNESCO ICT in Education.{{Cite web|last=|date=2019-03-08|title=Immersive learning tool from Finland wins UNESCO Prize for innovation in education|url=https://en.unesco.org/news/immersive-learning-tool-finland-wins-unesco-prize-innovation-education|access-date=2020-09-15|website=UNESCO|language=en}}