“Building a market around an innovation is something you learn in the field”: our interview for Temis
Temis Technopole met Joël Agnus and Valentin Reynaud to look back at how SensiTips began, the first pre-series sensors and what it actually means to turn a laboratory technology into a product.
In this interview published by Temis Technopole, Joël Agnus and Valentin Reynaud, research engineers in the AS2M department of the FEMTO-ST institute, tell the story of how SensiTips began: years of requests from researchers who needed to measure microforces, followed by the addition of a metrological dimension to make these measurements reliable and quantified.
They also discuss the project's recent milestones: a pre-series of around fifty sensors manufactured on the MIMENTO platform, the presentation of the first sensor at the Micronora trade show, where it won a Micron d'Argent (Silver Micron), and the search for a first priority market among specialists in France and Europe.
The project, incubated by DECA-BFC, receives support in particular from the i-PhD programme, HEC's Challenge+, Bpifrance, the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Region and SATT Sayens.
Thank you to Temis for this conversation.
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Temis TechnopoleUpdated by Temis Technopole on 7 October 2026
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