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Antler Outliers
A selective, hands-on event for ambitious university students who want to build, ship, and pitch a startup idea from scratch, all in a single evening.
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Students from all universities in Melbourne are welcome to apply.
This event will be held at The University of Melbourne.
Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally, with 1,800+ companies invested in across six continents (including companies like Lovable). We’re present in 30+ cities worldwide, including Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane.
We invest $260k–$750k in early-stage startups and run our Residency program, which receives 5,000+ applications per year in Australia alone. We select roughly 160 people, sometimes with no idea or co-founder, and help them build a venture-backed business from scratch.
Learn more:
AFR: Antler exceeds target for second Australian fund
StartupLink is a student-run organisation at the University of Melbourne, founded in 2019 and affiliated with UMSU and the Faculty of Business and Economics, that bridges the gap between students and Melbourne's startup ecosystem. Whether you're looking to become a founder, break into venture capital, or simply want to understand the startup world, StartupLink creates the space to make those connections happen, through events, speaker sessions, and a community of students who are genuinely curious about building things. From pitch nights and founder talks with local operators and investors to our annual flagship Startup Fair, we aim to make the startup scene more accessible to students at every stage of their journey.
Antler Outliers is a selective event where we bring together talented university students who are interested in starting a business and give them a real shot at creating one.
It’s part educational, part competition. We’ll cover:
Then you’ll put it into practice during a VIBE-A-THON: