Startup Grind Gibraltar is hosting an exclusive Fireside Chat with Sam Buxton, Chairman of Damex, and Kriya Patel, now CEO of Damex, at a genuinely important moment for the business and for Gibraltar’s financial services.

With the announcement that Damex now operates as a MiCA-licensed business, this is another event that is timely in the truest sense. This is a conversation about what it really takes to build something of scale from Gibraltar, how banking and fintech have had to adapt to each other, where stablecoins now sit as part of compliant payment infrastructure and what businesses in sectors like gaming and financial services actually need to understand as regulation tightens and expectations rise.

Damex is one of the largest startups ever built in Gibraltar. It was built locally, by people who understood both the opportunity and the responsibility that comes with operating from a small, highly visible jurisdiction. Over the years, the team has navigated banking, regulation, licensing, payments infrastructure and international growth without shortcuts and without losing sight of where they started. Damex won Startup of the Year at the 2022 Startup Grind Gibraltar Awards recognised for execution, resilience and building something that actually works.

We continue with the theme Build Local, Think Global, supporting people who have built properly, contributed locally and gone on to operate internationally. This is exactly what we want to share with the community. 

This session is for professionals in banking, payments and gaming, founders, operators, regulators, students and anyone curious about how successful businesses are built the hard way, over time and with intent.