Turning shareholder communications into meaningful engagement.
- Industry
- Biotech
- Headquarters
- Melbourne
- Market cap
- ~$337m
- With InvestorHub
- Since September 2025
Few equity stories are harder to tell than a clinical biotech's.
- 149%
- Growth in hub subscribers across FY26
- 4
- Major milestones communicated in a single year
- ~A$864m
- Genentech licence agreement, valued at up to
Source: Starpharma, 2026. The subscriber figure measures engagement with the hub; the milestone count and the licence value are business outcomes reported over the same year, not measures of investor engagement.
Problem
Few equity stories are harder to tell than a clinical biotech's. With investor communications spread across separate website, email and database systems, the company had limited visibility into who on its register was receiving and engaging with updates. Starpharma needed a more effective way to simplify complex milestones, engage shareholders beyond its largest investors, and gain clear insights into shareholder engagement and sentiment.
Impact
Since moving to InvestorHub in September 2025, Starpharma has run a milestone-packed year through one hub: new partnership agreements with Genentech and Radiopharm Theranostics, and a first-in-human Phase 1 study on track for H2 2026, supported by positive preclinical data and FDA alignment on the clinical pathway. Its lean, in-house IR team communicates every announcement to the full register and keeps an engaged shareholder base that continues to grow and outpaces similar market-cap peers.
For a company with a story as technical as ours, being able to reach and engage our whole register is critical to building long-term shareholder support.
Cheryl MaleyManaging Director & CEO, Starpharma (ASX:SPL)Step by step
How they did it.
Three moves, in the order Starpharma made them.
- 1
Communicate at scale
Rather than repeating the same updates one investor at a time, Starpharma distributes every ASX announcement directly to its register and amplifies it with synchronised email. The company also engages directly with shareholders through Investor Hub's Q&A platform, ensuring company updates are clearly understood and fostering two-way communication with the broader register.
Source: Starpharma's live investor hub, captured September 2026.
- 2
Add context with video
The team pairs technical newsflow with accessible video, from CEO updates to explainer content, held in one central video library that helps the whole market follow a complex clinical story.
Source: Starpharma's live investor hub, captured September 2026.
- 3
Understand the register
An automated report each month shows shareholder growth, register movements, engagement, and top buyers and sellers, giving Starpharma and its board a single, repeatable view of who is coming onto the register and how the base is behaving.
Sent automaticallyMonthly register report
August 2026
Shareholders, rolling 12 months
Growth+72%Top buyers
Ashgrove Capital+1.42mR. Vasquez+880kPinehaven Super+615kTop sellers
Calder Holdings-1.10mJ. Whitmore-742kSource: Illustrative. The report is generated behind a login, so this view is built from markup and every name and figure is invented.
The flywheel
Each turn makes the next one easier.
None of these are needle moving by themselves, but together and over time they combine and grow on each other to make each move more and more impactful.
- Attract
- Reach the whole register directly, rather than the twenty holders who take the calls. More of the register hears from you, so more of it can respond.
- Understand
- Every open, read, click and question is a signal about who is actually paying attention, and to what. The register stops being a list of names.
- Engage
- Answer what shareholders actually asked, while they are still asking it. That earns the next open, which is what makes the next turn sharper than this one.
Which is why the wheel doesn’t just keep turning, it gets better at turning. The register you engage this quarter is the register you understand next quarter.