2024 Boomerang Labs Wrap-up

It's been an incredible year at Boomerang Labs! In 2024, we supported more than 50 founders on their entrepreneurial journeys, both in our own programs and collaborating with partner organisations - check out our alumni page for more information on some of the incredible folks who've participated in Boomerang Labs programs!

Speaking of partners, we're thrilled to have on-going relationships with EnergyLab, Rocket Seeder and StartSomeGood, as well as Raaise, EY, NSW EPA, BINGO, Impact Ventures, Scimita Ventures.
And 2024 wouldn't have been nearly as great without this year's project partners:
The Business Centre (Newcastle)
Ungooroo Aboriginal Corporation
Hunter Innovation Festival
City of Melbourne
RMIT Activator
Anvarta
Lifecycles
You can find more about them on our partners page!

The 8 webinars we hosted with 13 speakers have been attended or viewed 500 times. To date, Boomerang Labs webinars have had more than 1100 such engagements - a number that's still growing, thanks to our library of free digital resources, so if you missed out on any of these fascinating talks, you can still enjoy them!
AI's Environmental Impact: For Better or Worse with Sophia Withers, Co-Founder at EcoGen Technologies, and Dr. Gareth Kennedy, Specialist Director - Data and AI at Deloitte Australia
Designing in Waste - Reframing product design around material recycling with Think Fencing's Jack Fitzgerald and Boomerang Labs alumni Circular Design Co's Liam Gibson and Reynard Wood's George Reinke
Mastering Brand and Digital Strategies to Grow a CE Business - BL alum and ReCo Digital creative director Danling Xiao
Founder Resilience and Creating Healthy Culture from Day 1 with founder and startup coach James Crowther
Managing Risk: The Importance of ESG in Your Business with Dr Kaushik Sridhar, Founder and CEO at Orka Advisory and Boomerang Labs mentor
Beyond Recognition: Awards as Catalysts for Startup Growth & Engagement with Banksia Foundation CEO Graz Van Egmond, 2022 Banksia Award winner Sascha Rust and judge (and Boomerang Labs mentor) Belinda Chellingworth
Reset to Repair with The Australian Repair Network's Professor Leanne Wiseman
The Business of Sharing with Boomerang Labs alumnus Dylan Pathirana of Lendecon and Kate Humphrey, Head of Member Experience & Brand at GoGet.

In addition to joining us for webinars, our mentors do a lot to support our cohorts of founders, which is why we're also excited that Boomerang Labs' mentor network grew to more than 71 people in 2024! Find out more about these industry leaders on our mentors page.

Applications for our next Accelerator will open soon as well, so we're already getting 2025 off to a great start!