This Research Note examines the development of Technis, a Swiss startup which has undergone several pivots, transitioning from smart tennis courts to smart flooring before shifting to a multi-disciplinary, unified space intelligence platform, spanning people flow, safety, and energy optimization.  We draw on commentary from a July 2025 podcast, “The Pivot that Makes or Breaks Your Startup”, together with our own research. Evolution of Technis Founded in 2016 by co-founder ⁠Wiktor Bourée⁠, CEO, as an EPFL spinoff, Lausanne-based  Technis pivoted early on from analyzing sports surfaces to providing smart flooring solutions for various applications. Their non-intrusive solutions facilitate decision-making through real-time data extraction and analysis of buildings, sites or retail operations. Their solutions are used to understand and manage the flow of people and the customer journey (number of visitors, occupancy rate, time spent, engagement rate), monitor air quality (humidity, temperature, CO2 level) or to improve comfort and safety for patients (preventive analysis, fall detection, […]