ScrewUps: Climate x Failure Flavour Edition • Jul 15 • Bangalore
This event is a collaboration between Beyond Next Ventures India and Twynam; as part of a Crunch Clusters leading upto SusCrunch 2026.
ScrewUps - Come for the free *therapy. Get a taste of climate founders' mistakes.
In public, every decision looks obvious in hindsight. "We optimised our supply chain for local resilience." "We structured a green asset financing facility."
But in the real world? You are fighting physics, hitting sudden regulatory walls, dealing with broken pilot components, and realising your hardware runway is running dangerously thin.
ScrewUps is where deeptech and deepscience founders get together to be brutally, refreshingly honest about the mistakes, face-plants, and 'learning experiences' that shaped their journey. This is your opportunity to be totally ok to laugh at past failures and fuckups.
Date & Time: Wednesday, July 15 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: Bangalore (Indiranagar) (Venue details shared with approved RSVPs)
*disclaimer: not actual professional therapy
What to Expect
🌶️ The Failure Flavours: Before a founder shares their ScrewUp story, they must pick and consume a flavour that matches the emotional profile of their setback. It's going to be spicy, sour, or bittersweet.
🤝You're Not Alone: A chance to meet and hear from other founders and operators and realise you're not the only one who has faced that "oh no" moment.
🚀 Climate x Deeptech Focus: This is built for founders scaling climate hardware, using science to solve for climate, etc. — where the failures are expensive, and the lessons are priceless.
🤫Intimacy w/Trust: This event is strictly open to founders, ex-founders, researchers and builders only. We're using the Chatham House Rule. What's shared in the room stays in the room. Seriously. No tweeting the 'oh sh*t' moments.
Who Should Attend
Deeptech & Science-led Climate Founders: At any stage, from "just started" to "seen it all"
Operators & Researchers in Climate: You are currently in the trenches and want to test your decision-making instincts without losing actual money, while scaling ambitious companies
The Vibe
We're having real conversations about the hard stuff—the decisions that went sideways, the pivots nobody saw coming, and the lessons that actually mattered.
Come for the free *therapy. Stay to learn from other people’s mistakes. Be a ScrewUp.
*disclaimer: not actual professional therapy
Questions?
Reach out to Aravind at [email protected]
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