Number of Portfolio Companies 1
Number of Founded Organizations 2
  • Investor Type  Individual/Angel
  • Investor Stage  Seed

Nick D'Aloisio is an English computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the inventor of Summly, which is a summarization and artificial intelligence technology developed with SRI International. D'Aloisio has been recognised as the youngest person to receive a round of venture capital in technology from a

Billionaire, at just 15 years of age. As of March 2013, Summly was sold to Yahoo for a reported $30 million US dollars making him one of the youngest self-made millionaires ever.

D'Aloisio was awarded "Innovator of the Year" in New York City by the Wall Street Journal for his work on Summly and at Yahoo. D'Aloisio was also included in TIME Magazine's 'Time 100' as one of the world's most influential teenagers, as well as being profiled in their "Secrets of Genius" Publication.

D'Aloisio currently leads the critically acclaimed Yahoo News Digest, which launched at CES 2014 and won the 2014 Apple Design Award at WWDC for its technological and product excellence. He is also an undergraduate student at Hertford College, Oxford University, where he is studying Computer Science and Philosophy, and is the "Entrepreneur in Residence" at Airbnb.

Number of Investments 1
Nick D'Aloisio invested in Wristcam on Nov 1, 2013. This investment - Series A - Wristcam - was valued at
$6.5M
.
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Nov 1, 2013
Wristcam
Series A - Wristcam
$6.5M
Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 3
Nick D'Aloisio is the Co-founder and CEO at Sphere (Acquired by Twitter). Additionally, Nick D'Aloisio has had 3 past jobs including Founder and CEO at Summly.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Summly
Founder and CEOMar 2011Oct 2015
Yahoo
Product Manager, Yahoo News DigestApr 2013Oct 2015
Airbnb
Entrepreneur in Residence
Nick D'Aloisio studied at University of Oxford.