Shawn Song is CEO and co-founder of Sonilo, a San Francisco-based generative audio startup whose Sound World Model generates music and sound effects synchronized to video. Before Sonilo he spent about five years at ByteDance and TikTok as a research engineer and later tech lead and staff research engineer, leading the TikTok multimodal music team's work on large-scale multimodal music, LLMs and end-to-end music generation. He studied computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and electrical and computer engineering at South China University of Technology. Sonilo raised an $11M round led by B Capital in October 2026.
Shawn Song is CEO and co-founder of Sonilo, a San Francisco-based generative audio startup whose Sound World Model generates music and sound effects synchronized to video. Before Sonilo he spent about five years at ByteDance and TikTok as a research engineer and later tech lead and staff research engineer, leading the TikTok multimodal music team's work on large-scale multimodal music, LLMs and end-to-end music generation. He studied computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and electrical and computer engineering at South China University of Technology. Sonilo raised an $11M round led by B Capital in October 2026.