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Invesco Small Cap Growth

BRIGHTHOUSE FUNDS TRUST I

SUMMARY PROSPECTUS

April 28, 2025

Invesco Small Cap Growth Portfolio

Class A, Class B and Class E Shares

Before you invest, you may want to review the Portfolio’s Prospectus, which contains more information about the Portfolio and its

risks. You can find the Portfolio’s Prospectus, reports to shareholders, and other information about the Portfolio (including the

documents listed below) online at https://dfinview.com/BHFT. You can also get this information at no cost by calling

1-800-882-1292 or by sending an e-mail request to RCG@brighthousefinancial.com. The Portfolio’s Prospectus and Statement of

Additional Information, both dated April 28, 2025, as supplemented from time to time, and the Portfolio’s financial statements for

the year ended December 31, 2024, including the notes to the financial statements, the financial highlights and the report of the

Portfolio’s independent registered public accounting firm, all of which are included in Form N-CSR of the Portfolio, dated

December 31, 2024, are all incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus. This Summary Prospectus is intended for

individuals who have purchased Contracts (as defined below) from insurance companies, including insurance companies affiliated

with Brighthouse Investment Advisers, LLC, and is not intended for use by other investors.

Investment Objective

Long-term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses of the Portfolio

The following table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Portfolio. The table and the Example below do not reflect the fees, expenses or withdrawal charges imposed by your variable life insurance policy or variable annuity contract (the “Contract”). If Contract expenses were reflected, the fees and expenses in the table and Example would be higher. See the Contract prospectus for a description of those fees, expenses and charges.

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)—

None

Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
	Class A	Class B	Class E
Management Fee	0.86%	0.86%	0.86%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees	None	0.25%	0.15%
Other Expenses	0.04%	0.04%	0.04%
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses	0.90%	1.15%	1.05%
Fee Waiver1	(0.08% )	(0.08% )	(0.08% )
Net Operating Expenses	0.82%	1.07%	0.97%

Brighthouse Investment Advisers, LLC has contractually agreed, for the period May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2026, to reduce the Management Fee for each class of the Portfolio. This arrangement may be modified or discontinued prior to April 30, 2026, only with the approval of the Board of Trustees of the Portfolio.

Example

The following Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Portfolio with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in

the Portfolio for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, that the Portfolio’s operating expenses remain the same, and that all fee waivers for the Portfolio will expire after one year. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:

	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class A	$84	$279	$491	$1,100
Class B	$109	$357	$625	$1,390
Class E	$99	$326	$572	$1,275

Portfolio Turnover

The Portfolio pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual portfolio operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Portfolio’s performance.
During the most recent fiscal year, the Portfolio’s portfolio turnover rate was 56% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Invesco Advisers, Inc. (“Invesco” or “Subadviser”), subadviser to the Portfolio, invests, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Portfolio’s net assets in securities of small-cap companies. In complying with this 80% investment requirement, the Portfolio will invest primarily in equity securities. The Portfolio considers a company to be a small-cap company if it has a market capitalization, at the time of purchase, no larger than the market capitalization of the largest capitalized issuer included in the Russell 2000® Index during the most recent 11-month period (based on month-end data) plus the most recent data during the current month.

The Portfolio may invest up to 20% of its assets in equity securities of issuers that have market capitalizations, at the time of purchase, in other market capitalization ranges. The Portfolio may invest in real estate investment trusts. The Portfolio may also invest up to 25% of its total assets in foreign securities, including both developing and developed markets. For risk

management purposes, the Portfolio may hold a portion of its assets in cash or cash equivalents, including money market instruments. The Portfolio may, from time to time, emphasize one or more sectors.

The Portfolio invests primarily in securities that are considered by the Portfolio’s portfolio managers to have potential for earnings or revenue growth. In selecting investments, the portfolio managers utilize a disciplined portfolio construction process that aligns the Portfolio with the Russell 2000® Growth Index, which the portfolio managers believe represents the small-cap growth asset class. The security selection process is based on a three-step process that includes fundamental, valuation and timeliness analysis.

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Fundamental analysis involves building a series of financial models, as well as conducting in-depth interviews with company management. The goal is to find high quality, fundamentally sound companies operating in an attractive industry.

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Valuation analysis focuses on identifying attractively valued securities given their growth potential over a one- to two-year horizon.

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Timeliness analysis is used to help identify the “timeliness” of a purchase. In this step, relative price strength, trading volume characteristics, and trend analysis are reviewed for signs of deterioration. If a stock shows signs of deterioration, it will not be considered as a candidate for the Portfolio.

The portfolio managers consider selling a security if the investment thesis for owning the security is no longer valid, the stock reaches its price target or timeliness factors indicate that the risk/return characteristics of the stock as viewed in the market are no longer attractive.

Principal Risks

As with all mutual funds, there is no guarantee that the Portfolio will achieve its investment objective. You could lose money by investing in the Portfolio. An investment in the Portfolio through a Contract is not a deposit or obligation of, or guaranteed by, any bank, and is not federally insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S. Government.

The value of your investment in the Portfolio may be affected by one or more of the following risks, which are described in more detail in “Principal Risks of Investing in the Portfolio” in the Prospectus. The significance of any specific risk to an investment in the Portfolio will vary over time, depending on the composition of the Portfolio, market conditions, and other factors. You should read all of the risk information presented below carefully, because any one or more of these risks could cause the Portfolio’s return, the price of the Portfolio’s shares or the Portfolio’s yield to fluctuate.

Market Risk. The Portfolio’s share price can fall because of, among other things, a decline in the market as a whole, deterioration in the prospects for a particular industry or company, changes in general economic conditions, such as

prevailing interest rates or investor sentiment, or other factors including terrorism, war, natural disasters and the spread of infectious illness including epidemics or pandemics. In addition, unexpected political, regulatory, trade and diplomatic events within the United States and abroad may affect investor and consumer confidence and may adversely impact financial markets and the broader economy, perhaps suddenly and to a significant degree. Significant disruptions to the financial markets could adversely affect the liquidity and volatility of securities held by the Portfolio.

Market Capitalization Risk. Investing primarily in issuers in one market capitalization category (large, medium or small) carries the risk that due to current market conditions that category will be out of favor with investors. Larger, more established companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges or attain the high growth rate of successful smaller companies. Stocks of medium and small capitalization companies may be more volatile than those of larger companies due to, among other things, narrower product lines, more limited financial resources and fewer experienced managers. In addition, there is typically less publicly available information about small capitalization companies, and their stocks may have a more limited trading market than stocks of larger companies.

Investment Style Risk. Different investment styles such as growth or value tend to shift in and out of favor, depending on market and economic conditions as well as investor sentiment. The Portfolio may outperform or underperform other funds that employ a different investment style.

Foreign Investment Risk. Investments in foreign securities, whether direct or indirect, tend to be more volatile and less liquid than investments in U.S. securities because, among other things, they involve risks relating to political, social, economic and other developments abroad, as well as risks resulting from differences between the regulations and reporting standards and practices to which U.S. and foreign issuers are subject. To the extent foreign securities are denominated in foreign currencies, their values may be adversely affected by changes in currency exchange rates. All of the risks of investing in foreign securities are typically increased by investing in emerging market countries.

Focused Investment Risk. Substantial investments in a relatively small number of securities or issuers, or a particular market, industry, group of industries, country, region, group of countries, asset class or sector make the Portfolio’s performance more susceptible to any single economic, market, political or regulatory occurrence affecting those particular securities or issuers or that particular market, industry, group of industries, country, region, group of countries, asset class or sector than a portfolio that invests more broadly.

Real Estate Investment Risk. Investments in real estate investment trusts and other real estate related securities may be adversely impacted by the performance of the real estate market generally or that of a particular sub-sector or geographic region.

Invesco Small Cap Growth Portfolio

Past Performance

The information below provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Portfolio by showing changes in the Portfolio’s performance from year to year and how the Portfolio’s average annual returns over time compare with those of a broad-based securities market index and an additional index reflecting the market segment(s) in which the Portfolio invests. Note that the results in the bar chart and table do not include the effect of Contract charges. If these Contract charges had been included, performance would have been lower. As with all mutual funds, past returns are not a prediction of future returns.

Year-by-Year Total Return for Class A Shares as of
December 31 of Each Year

Highest Quarter	Q2 2020	34.21%
Lowest Quarter	Q2 2022	-22.02%

Average Annual Total Return as of December 31, 2024

	1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Class A	16.59%	7.46%	8.47%
Class B	16.33%	7.19%	8.20%
Class E	16.37%	7.32%	8.31%
Russell 3000 Index* (reflects no deduction for mutual fund fees or expenses)	23.81%	13.86%	12.55%
Russell 2000 Growth Index (reflects no deduction for mutual fund fees or expenses)	15.15%	6.86%	8.09%

Effective February 26, 2025, the Russell 3000 Index was added as a broad measure of market performance in accordance with recent changes to regulatory disclosure requirements. The Portfolio continues to use the Russell 2000 Growth Index as an additional benchmark that reflects the market segment(s) in which the Portfolio invests.

Management

Adviser. Brighthouse Investment Advisers, LLC (“BIA”), is the Portfolio’s investment adviser.

Subadviser. Invesco Advisers, Inc., is the subadviser to the Portfolio.

Portfolio Managers. Juan Hartsfield, CFA, (Lead Manager), Portfolio Manager, Clay Manley, CFA, Portfolio Manager, and Justin Sander, CFA, Portfolio Manager, have managed the Portfolio since 2004, 2008 and 2020, respectively.

Purchase and Sale of Portfolio Shares

Shares of the Portfolio are only sold to separate accounts of insurance companies, including insurance companies affiliated with BIA, to fund Contracts. For information regarding the purchase and sale of the Portfolio’s shares, please see the prospectus for the relevant Contract.

Tax Information

For information regarding the tax consequences of Contract ownership, please see the prospectus for the relevant Contract.

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial
Intermediaries

The Portfolio is not sold directly to the general public but instead is offered as an underlying investment option for Contracts issued by insurance companies, including insurance companies that are affiliated with the Portfolio and BIA. The Portfolio and its related companies, including BIA, may make payments to the sponsoring insurance companies (or their affiliates) for distribution and/or other services, and the insurance companies may benefit more from offering the Portfolio as an investment option in the Contracts than offering other portfolios. The benefits to the insurance companies of offering the Portfolio over other portfolios and these payments may be factors that the insurance companies consider in including the Portfolio as an underlying investment option in the Contracts and may create a conflict of interest. The prospectus for your Contract contains additional information about these payments.

Invesco Small Cap Growth Portfolio

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