# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nick-d-aloisio
# Generated: 2026-09-04T21:11:09.144Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nick-d-aloisio"
name: "Nick D'Aloisio"
slug: "nick-d-aloisio"
description: "Nicholas D'Aloisio is a British computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is the founder of Summly, a mobile app which automatically summarises news articles and other material, which was acquired by Yahoo for $30M, according to allthingsd.com, but the price wasn't officially disclosed. D'Aloisio is the youngest person to receive a round of venture capital in technology, at the age of 16. D'Aloisio was more recently the founder of a startup called Sphere that was acquired by Twitter in October 2021 for an undisclosed sum, and received $30M of venture capital investment from Index Ventures and Mike Moritz. He is also a student at Oxford University, where he graduated from the BPhil in Philosophy in July 2021 and now is undertaking the PhD (DPhil) course. D'Aloisio has had seven papers accepted for publication or revision & resubmission in peer-reviewed journals."
tagline: "Programmer, entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nick_D%E2%80%99Aloisio%2C_Founder%2C_Summly_%40_LeWeb_London_2012_Central_Hall_Westminster-1238.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
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birthDate: "1995-11-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.30572666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/nickdaloisio"
    handle:    "nickdaloisio"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump