Luana Lopes Lara is a Brazilian Businesswoman. She is the co-founder of Kalshi. She has now become the youngest woman in the world to earn a billionaire status on her own.
She beat Lucy Guo from Scale AI for the top spot, and Lucy had only recently passed Taylor Swift on the list.
Net Worth, Ethnicity & Religion
According to the reports, her current net worth is approximately $1.3 billion from all of her income sources as of 2025(source). She is of Brazilian-American ethnicity. Her religious faith is not updated religion.
Husband, Parents & Siblings
According to the reports, she is unmarried. She met her future business partner, Tarek Mansour, when they were in college. They grew close because he started sitting beside her in class so he could learn from her.Â
Her father’s name is Mr Lara, and her mother’s name is Mrs Lara. She was motivated by her mom, who taught math, and her dad, who worked as an electrical engineer. She has a sister named Cristiana Lopes Lara.
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Early Life & Educational Details
Her real name is Luana Lopes Lara. She was born in 1996 in Brazil. She is 29 years old as of 2025. She trained at the Bolshoi Theatre School, where the competition was so tough that she now says it was even harder than studying at MIT.
She later worked as a professional ballerina in Austria. Along with her dance career, she was also great at her studies, winning national Olympiad awards. After that, she moved to the US to study computer science at MIT.
While studying there, she met Mansour. They bonded after he started sitting beside her in class to learn from her. Their friendship grew even stronger in 2018 when both of them got internships at Five Rings Capital in New York City.
Career
She says high school was the toughest time of her life. At the Bolshoi School in Brazil, her ballet training was extremely harsh. Teachers tested her strength by holding a lit cigarette under her leg while she stretched, to see how long she could keep the pose.
Some dancers even tried to sabotage others by putting bits of glass in their shoes. Her schedule was also exhausting—academic classes from 7 a.m. to noon, then ballet from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Motivated by her mom, who taught math, and her dad, who was an electrical engineer, Lopes Lara studied late into the night to prepare for academic contests.
She won a gold medal in the Brazilian Astronomy Olympiad and a bronze in the Santa Catarina Math Olympiad. After finishing high school in December, she worked as a professional ballerina in Austria for nine months.
Then she stopped dancing so she could attend MIT and chase her goals in the US. At 29, Lara has become the youngest self-made woman billionaire in the world.
She passed 31-year-old Lucy Guo from Scale AI, who had earlier moved ahead of Taylor Swift.
She and her cofounder, Tarek Mansour—also 29—both reached billionaire status after their company, Kalshi, raised $1 billion and hit an $11 billion valuation.
What Is Kalshi?
Kalshi, a platform where people make predictions on future events like elections, sports, and entertainment, has exploded in value. It was valued at $2 billion in June, then $5 billion in October, and now it’s shot up to $11 billion in less than six months.
This massive jump pushed the founders’ wealth way up. Each of them owns about 12% of the company, giving them an estimated net worth of around $1.3 billion each.
Since July, trading activity on Kalshi has grown eight times bigger, hitting $5.8 billion in November. Its main rival, Polymarket, has also surged—its trades have more than tripled since July, reaching $4.3 billion in November. Polymarket’s value has climbed to $9 billion(source).
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