Roberto “Reks” Kafati
Co-founder and CEO of DEUNA, building payment infrastructure and AI-driven commerce solutions to simplify global payments and extract AI-ready transactional data for enterprises.
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Oct 24, 2025 • 25min
From Payments Data Chaos to Agentic Commerce: A Founder's Vision with Roberto Kafati, Co-Founder & CEO at DEUNA
Roberto Kafati, Co-founder and CEO of DEUNA, is on a mission to simplify global payments and revolutionize commerce. He highlights that resilience is more valuable than glamorous success, emphasizing long-term focus for exponential growth. Roberto shares his journey from academic roots in Dartmouth and Stanford to addressing payment challenges in Honduras. He discusses the importance of AI-ready data in commerce and forecasts a future where intelligent systems proactively enhance consumer experiences. It's all about small wins leading to big results!
Sep 10, 2025 • 35min
3416: DEUNA: From One-Click Checkout to Intelligent Payments Infrastructure
In this discussion, Roberto “Reks” Kafati, CEO and co-founder of DEUNA, shares insights on revolutionizing payments in Latin America. He emphasizes how the pandemic inspired their one-click checkout evolution into a robust AI-driven payments infrastructure. Reks dives into the challenges of high decline rates, detailing DEUNA's Athena system that analyzes 638 data points per transaction to optimize merchant decisions. This innovative approach not only enhances revenue recovery but also enriches user experience while minimizing transaction friction.
