key takeaways
- Luana Lopes is the co-founder of Lara Kalashi, a platform that allows users to bet on the outcomes of future events.
- Following a $1 billion funding round earlier this week, Kalshi is now valued at $11 billion.
- Lopes Lara’s 12% stake in Kalshi brings her net worth to $1.3 billion, making her the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire.
Move aside, Lucy Guo – a new billionaire has joined the ten-figure club.
29-year-old Luana Lopes Lara became the co-founder of Kalshi Youngest self-made female billionaire After announcing its startup on Tuesday $1 billion funding round At a valuation of $11 billion. Venture capital firm Paradigm led the raise, which also had participation from Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.
Kalashi is a platform that allows users to bet on the outcomes of future events such as elections, interest rate changes, and celebrity divorces. This site is legal and regulated in the United States.
“We’ve seen that most trading happens when people have some ideas about the future,” Lopes Lara previously reported. forbes,
Kalshi’s evaluation is double In less than two months. startup was first worth $5 billion After raising $300 million in October.
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Lopes Lara’s 12% stake in Kalshi brought her net worth to $1.3 billion, making her the youngest female billionaire who did not inherit her wealth but built it on her own. forbesShe takes the crown from previous title holder Lucy Guo, the 31-year-old co-founder of Scale AI, and 35-year-old singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, who briefly held the title earlier this year,
Who is Luana Lopes Lara?
Lopes Lara graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics. LinkedinHe spent his college summers working for the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates as a software engineer and for Citadel Securities as a quantitative trader,
according to forbesLópez Lara considers high school as “the most intense years of her life”. She took academic courses from 7 a.m. to noon, and then ballet classes from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Bolshoi Theater School In Brazil.
The cut-throat schedule meant he had to deal with putting shards of glass in each other’s shoes to get ahead of classmates. She studied at night for academic competitions and won a gold medal at the Brazilian Astronomy Olympiad and a bronze medal at the Santa Catarina Mathematics Olympiad.
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After graduating high school, Lopes Lara worked as a professional ballerina in Austria for nine months before matriculating at MIT and beginning her graduate studies.
Met Lopes Lara at MIT tarek mansoorA fellow computer science major who had worked as a quantitative trader and technologist at Goldman Sachs, Citadel, and Palantir. The two started Kalshi together in 2018.
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key takeaways
- Luana Lopes is the co-founder of Lara Kalashi, a platform that allows users to bet on the outcomes of future events.
- Following a $1 billion funding round earlier this week, Kalshi is now valued at $11 billion.
- Lopes Lara’s 12% stake in Kalshi brings her net worth to $1.3 billion, making her the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire.
Move aside, Lucy Guo – a new billionaire has joined the ten-figure club.
29-year-old Luana Lopes Lara became the co-founder of Kalshi Youngest self-made female billionaire After announcing its startup on Tuesday $1 billion funding round At a valuation of $11 billion. Venture capital firm Paradigm led the raise, which also had participation from Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.
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