Alec Ellison Joins OurCrowd Advisory Board

 October 27, 2016 | Israeli crowd-funding firm OurCrowd announced that Alec Ellison, former Vice Chairman of Jefferies, LLC, and Chairman of the Technology Investment Banking group, has joined the OurCrowd Advisory Board. Prior to Jefferies, Ellison was President of Broadview International (which Jefferies acquired).  He began his banking career at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Ellison holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.B.A. from Harvard, where he was a Baker Scholar. Founded in 2013 by Jon Medved, OurCrowd’s community includes nearly 15,000 investors from 110 countries. With offices today in seven countries and a worldwide staff supporting over 100 portfolio companies, OurCrowd has invested over $300 million focused on venture capital and technology startups and has had nine exits: two IPOs and seven sales. In September 2016 OurCrowd announced that it has raised $72 million in Series C funding for its General Partner fund.