DECLARA: $16 million to Palo Alto, CA-based Declara in a Series A round led by GSV Capital; Data Collective, Founders Fund and Catamount Ventures also chipped in. Mark Flynn, co-managing partner of GSV Asset Management, will join the Declara board. Founded in 2012, Declara offers an online platform that uses "semantic search, predictive analytics and machine learning" to learners find the right content. Currently it's used to help teachers in Australia, Mexico, Chile and Brazil, as Declara co-founder, Nelson Gonzalez, shared with EdSurge here. The company has now raised $21 million. Here's the press release.