Brett Hurt is a seed-stage investor at Hurt Family Investments (HFI) in partnership with his wife, Debra Hurt. HFI is involved in 37 startups and counting. HFI has made 27 startup investments, eleven of which are Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies. Brett has also joined the Advisory Board of ten additional companies, eight of which are SaaS, and he also serves as the Chairman of the Board at Edgecase (formerly named Compare Metrics). Out of the 37 startups HFI are involved in, 26 are headquartered in Austin. HFI is the founding donor in the UT Discovery Fund at the University of Texas at Austin (a student run fund that supports UT student entrepreneurs) and also the The Wharton School's Entrepreneur Fund, which supports Wharton student entrepreneurs.