Water & Sustainability
The UN has set this many Sustainable Development Goals
What is 17
Each startup gets this many minutes to deliver its pitch at the competition
What is 5
B2C" stands for this
What is business to consumer
This is the largest animal that has ever lived
What is the blue whale
Only about this percentage of Earth's water is fresh water
What is 3% (btwn 2-3% accepted)
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 "VCs," short for this
What is venture capital
This is the capital of Australia
What is Canberra
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 online, for example on Kickstarter, is called this
What is crowdfunding
This planet has the most known moons in our solar system
What is saturn
Earth Overshoot Day represents what?
What is 'The day in the year when humanity has used more resources than the Earth can regenerate in that year'
Last years edition was under this theme
What is renewable energy
SaaS," the business model behind Slack and Zoom, stands for this
What is softare as a service
What is house/household?
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