Shen Tong

Shen Tong 沈彤
Shen Tong at 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre in Washington, D.C.
Managing Partner of Food Future, Inc. & Founder of FOOD-X
Personal details
Born	(1968-07-30) 30 July 1968 (age 48) Beijing, China
Alma mater	Beijing University Brandeis University Harvard University Boston University

Shen Tong (Simplified Chinese: 沈彤; Hanyu Pinyin: Shěn Tóng) is a Chinese American social activist, impact investor, writer. He has founded business accelerators Food Future, Inc. in 2015 and Food-X in 2014, recognized by Fast Company as one of "The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Food". This TEDx Talk explains his impact investment thesis. He was a Chinese dissident, exiled as one of the student leaders in the democracy movement at Tiananmen Square in 1989 One of the People of the Year by Newsweek 1989, Shen Tong became a media, software, social entrepreneur, and investor since the late 1990s. He serves on the board of Food Tank

Shen Tong was born in 1968, in Beijing. He studied at Peking University from 1986 to 1989, and became one of the student leaders during the 1989 protest in Tiananmen Square. He lives in New York City. He has two daughters and a son. His father and sister Shen Qing both went to Peking University, and his mother is a medical doctor.

Shen Tong moved from Massachusetts to New York in year 2000 focusing more exclusively on businesses with impact and purpose, and creative writing. He founded FOOD-X and Food Future, Inc. in New York City working closely with Danielle Nierenberg, Dan Barber, Dorothy Cann Hamilton, Michael Moss, and Michel Nischan. His has several dozen publicly known commercial and impact investments.

He was the founder and president of the company VFinity, which makes software tools and web applications for multimedia and multilingual search, media production, archiving, and media distribution. He is known for his promotion of "Context Media" partially due to his keynote speech at a super session of National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas, 2007. His media businesses in 1990s included TV production B&B Media Production, with the Boston-based foundation he chaired being the lead investor and providing senior management, and investment in bookstore and publishing in Beijing. B&B Media Production had created and produced several highly circulated and acclaimed TV programs, including No.1 rated national weekend prime time show Tell It Like It Is during its first season.