Research Valley: Cradle for High-Tech Companies
Published Jan 24, 2008
When you create an information technology company, what better way to build one than on the foundation of one of America’s leading research universities?
That’s the model Larry Teverbaugh devised when he and three colleagues left the Texas Engineering Extension Service to start K2Share in 2000.
In fact, Texas A&M became the first client for the firm whose name is based on an e-learning model, “knowledge to share.”
From there, K2Share moved on to federal and state agencies and corporate clients. The company also expanded to provide full-scale information technology services to clients in all 56 U.S. states and territories.
Building custom software packages and developing special online content have become strengths for K2Share. The company’s SPARS software, or State Preparedness Assessment and Readiness Service, functions as an industry-leading homeland security tool enabling customers to manage the growing array of security demands in a post-9/11 world.
K2Share is one of three information technology companies that sit side-by-side on University Avenue.
“There are a lot of small companies here in town that are associated with IT that are kind of below the radar screen,” Teverbaugh says. “The community is working more and more to try to help small businesses through networking, and I think it’s just going to continue.” And Teverbaugh credits his former employer – the Texas Engineering Extension Service – with giving K2Share a leg up in the business world.
Story by Gary Perilloux
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