Shen Tong

Shen Tong is a serial entrepreneur and impact investor with more than seventy investments in food, media, and other high-tech ventures. He is currently the founder and Managing Partner of FoodFutureCo, the food business accelerator and impact investment fund that focuses on scale-up stage food and agriculture disruptions. One of Newsweek’s People of the Year in 1989, Shen Tong was an organizer of the democracy movement in 1989 that occupied Tiananmen Square whilst at Beijing University. After his exile to the USA, he completed an undergraduate degree at Brandeis University and went on to study Ph.D. programs at Boston University and Harvard University. Shen became an entrepreneur in the 1990s as founder and co-founder of B&B Media and VFinity among other ventures. Over the past 2 decades, he has served on many boards and advisory boards including Spark & Honey, Food Tank, and Poets & Writers. In 2014, he founded FOOD-X and also serves as a partner of tier 1 VC - a start-up accelerator and multi-stage venture capital fund. Shen is a long-time social activist, film buff, foodie, intrepid traveler, and writer/poet and has spoken at TEDx Manhattan among hundreds of outlets about his passion for food & beverage, agriculture, personal health and wellness, climate action, and human rights.