President Obama Praises Declara As An Example Of Innovation And Inclusion -- WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

"At the White House's first-ever Demo Day, which highlighted the importance of entrepreneurship and inclusion, President Obama cited Declara as evidence that "you never know who's going to have the next big idea or what path will lead them there." The President noted that Declara founder and CEO Ramona Pierson's life story serves as inspiration for Declara. When Pierson was 22, she was hit by a drunk driver. The accident left her in a coma for 18 months and blind for ten years. She has undergone more than 100 reconstructive surgeries. The President stated that 'decades later, Ramona looks back on the process of learning by connecting with others as the catalyst for a startup that she launched three years ago called Declara.' Before his remarks, Pierson demonstrated Declara to the President. 'We're an open learning and knowledge innovation platform. Using our CognitiveGraph® technology, which is driven by big data algorithms, we help knowledge workers invent new things, to solve big world problems.' Citing that search technology is decades old, relatively flat, and driven by the logic of ad placement, Pierson described Declara as a unified engine for collective intelligence where people can create collections augmented by machine learning and predictive social analytics ..."