Keith Schacht

Keith Schacht is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He was named as one of the top 20 entrepreneurs under 25 by BusinessWeek,[1] was a speaker at the TED Conference, and has been featured in Forbes,[2] Fortune,[3] Business 2.0,[4] and Wired.[5]

Professional accomplishments

Keith Schacht's first company, founded while in college, was Lever Works, a custom software development shop. It was co-founded with Brian Witlin and Zach Kaplan. In December 2001 Lever Works was sold to Leo Media for an undisclosed sum.[6]

In 2002, Schacht co-founded Inventables, a company that educates companies about new materials and technologies. The company was featured in numerous publications including Forbes in 2006[2] and Wired in 2007. He also gave a talk on "Toys from the Future"[7] at the TED Conference in 2005

In 2007, Schacht founded Crafted Fun, an early company building applications on the Facebook platform. Crafted Fun raised funding from Apex Ventures and Naval Ravikant.[8] The company developed a range of Facebook applications including Grow-a-Gift which was cited as a top application used by millions of people.[9]

In 2010, Schacht joined Facebook as a product manager and launched an updated version of News Feed in 2011.[10][11][12] He left the company in 2012.

In 2013, Keith co-founded Mystery Science with Doug Peltz. Mystery Science creates open-and-go lessons for elementary teachers and helps them teach science without requiring a background in science.[13]

References
  1. "Entrepreneurs: Cream of the Young Crop". 28 December 2005.
  2. Lambert, Emily (2006). "Gadgets to Go".
  3. Julie Schlosser (1 November 2004). "Inside-the-box Thinking".
  4. David Pescovitz (1 January 2004). "Mail-Order Inspiration".
  5. Betsy Schiffman (22 May 2008). "Facebook To Go Under the Knife".
  6. Lueken, Abbie (6 June 2005). "Student Entrepreneurs Make Dreams a Reality". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011.
  7. "Toys from the Future". 2008.
  8. "Keynote Speakers". 2010. Archived from the original on 26 September 2011.
  9. "Farmer, Jesse" (2007). "Hottest Facebook Apps".
  10. Parr, Ben (2011). "Facebook Changes News Feed So You Never Miss Vital Updates".
  11. Swartz, Jon (2011). "Facebook, Google+ announce new features".
  12. Taylor, Colleen (2011). "Facebook wants to be the newspaper of your dreams".
  13. "Mystery Science Helps Teachers Dazzle Their Students With Interactive Science Classes". Forbes. 17 August 2017.

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