Forbes estimated Luana Lopes Lara's net worth at about $2.6 billion in December 2025. The article said most of it comes from her stake of roughly 12 percent in Kalshi.
She co-founded Kalshi with Tarek Mansour in 2018 and is its chief operating officer. Kalshi is a regulated prediction market. It raised $1B at an $11B valuation in December 2025 and later a $1B round at $22B.
She was born on May 20, 1996, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She trained for eight years at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Joinville and later danced in Swan Lake at the Salzburger Landestheater in Austria.
She graduated from MIT in 2018 with a computer science degree and interned at Bridgewater and Citadel Securities.