Water & Sustainability
The UN has set this many Sustainable Development Goals
What is 17
Each startup gets roughly this many minutes to deliver its pitch at the competition
What is 5 (btwn 5 to 7 exepted)
B2C stands for this
What is business to consumer
This animal has 3 hearts
What is an octopus
Earth overshoot day represents
What is 'The day in the year when humanity has used more resources than the Earth can regenerate in that year'
oikos Catalyst hands out these two prizes to the winning start-ups
What is the jury prize and audience prize
Investors who put money into startups are often called what
What is venture capital (VC's) or angel investor (both exepcted)
This is the national animal/creature of Scotland
What is a unicorn
Roughly this many litres of water go into making a single cotton T-shirt
About 2,700 litres (accept 2,000–3,000)
oikos Catalyst was founded in this year
What is 2023
Raising small amounts of money from many people/firms is called this
What is crowdfunding
This country invented ketchup
What is China
There is roughly this amount of freshwater on earth (in %)
What is '3%' (btwn 2-4% is exepted)
Last years edition was under this theme
What is renewable energy
SaaS, the business model, stands for this
What is software as a service
This is the name of the dot over the i and j
What is a tittle
This climate treaty was adopted in Japan in 1997
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
Looking back, Catalyst's founder said the most unpredictable part of organising the first edition wasn't sponsors or startups, but these:
What are room reservations
A startup that survives but can neither grow nor raise new money is called this
What is a zombie start-up
This is the only letter of the alphabet that doesn't appear in any US state name
What is Q