Luana Lopes Lara Crowned World's Youngest Self-Made Female Billionaire

Key facts

• Luana Lopes Lara was officially crowned the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire.
• She is the co-founder of Kalshi, a federally regulated prediction market platform.
• Kalshi achieved a valuation of $11 billion.
• She holds an estimated 12% stake in Kalshi.
• Kalshi received approval from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), becoming the first federally regulated prediction market platform in the country.
• A judge ruled in Kalshi’s favor, granting the platform the legal right to offer election prediction markets.
• She trained as a professional ballerina at the Bolshoi Theater School in Brazil.
• She studied computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).