Hurt Family Investments (HFI) are involved in 135 startups and counting, 59 of which are Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies and 81 of which are based in Austin.
HFI are investors in 42 venture funds - three with Next Coast Ventures, ten with Capital Factory, one with Chicago Ventures, six in Silicon Valley that are very high profile and confidential (per their request), two with CAVU Venture Partners, one with Multicoin Capital, two with Moonshots Capital, two with Forerunner Ventures, two with Congress Avenue Ventures, one with Tech Pioneers Fund, two with FJ Labs, one with FYRFLY Venture Partners, one with Night Ventures, one with Flex Capital, and six with Lead Edge Capital - and these funds hold investments across many startups, some of which are detailed below (except for the confidential funds). Multicoin Capital also holds investments across various cryptocurrencies.
HFI are donors to various entrepreneurial causes at the University of Texas at Austin, including the Genesis Program, and The Wharton School's Entrepreneur Fund, which supports Wharton student entrepreneurs. HFI were one of the top donors to the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Central Texas, which supports communities through entrepreneurship, and the founding donors to establish the Bazaarvoice Foundation, which catalyzes the next generation of highly-educated, entrepreneurial youth. HFI also funded the Hurt Family Tennis Center at Shalom Austin, which opened in 2022 for all ages in Austin to enjoy.
Philanthrophy Supporting Entrepreneurship
Current Portfolio Companies
Current Fund Investments
The Capital Factory fund HFI are in hold investments in Aceable, Cratejoy, Dean Drako's Eagle Eye Networks, Goodybag, Pingboard, Jonathan Coon's Impossible Ventures, Loop & Tie, Nuve, and others.
The six Lead Edge Capital funds HFI are in hold investments in Alibaba Group (IPO), Ant Group, Asana (IPO), Appirio (acquired), BlaBlaCar, drillinginfo (acquired), Grafana Labs, Marketo (IPO), MINDBODY (IPO), Monetate (acquired), Serena & Lily (acquired), Spotify (IPO), Spredfast (recently acquired Mass Relevance), Toast (IPO), Uber (IPO), Xamarin (acquired), and others.
Former Portfolio companies (exits)
(Adometry was acquired by Google in May 2014)
(Bazaarvoice completed its IPO and Follow-on Offering in February and July 2012 and was named one of the top five IPOs of 2012 by The Wall Street Journal)
(Conversable was acquired by LivePerson in October 2018)
(Conductor was acquired by WeWork in March 2018; we exited then - in cash - and then it was spun back out again)
(Coremetrics was acquired by IBM in August 2010)
(Deep Eddy Vodka was acquired by Heaven Hill Brands in August 2015)
(Edgecase was acquired by GroupBy in June 2017)
(Magisto was acquired by Vimeo in April 2019)
(Meta SaaS was acquired by Flexera in May 2018)
(Monetate was acquired by Kibo in October 2019)
(ROIKOI was acquired by Terminal in April 2020)
(Shopkick was acquired by SK Planet in September 2014)
(Vyze was acquired by Mastercard in April 2019)
(Wisecrack was acquired by Omnia Media in August 2019)