Luana Lopes Lara and her business partner Tarek Mansour broke into the global billionaires' list after their startup raised $1 billion in a new round of funding. Luana Lopes Lara is now the world's youngest billionaire. (File)

Luana Lopes Lara, the co-founder of prediction market platform Kalshi, has become the world’s youngest billionaire after her startup reached a $11 billion valuation. The 29-year-old, a former ballerina, took the youngest billionaire title from Scale AI’s Lucy Guo, who recently surpassed Taylor Swift.

Who is Luana Lopes Lara?

Born in Brazil, Luana Lopes Lara was a former professional ballerina in Austria, before where she excelled in academics, winning medals in the national Olympiad. Later, Lara went to the United States, where she studied computer science at the

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