Luana Lopes Lara, co-founder of the prediction market platform Kalshi, has become the world's youngest self-made female billionaire at 29. Kalshi, recently valued at $11 billion following a $1 billion funding round led by Paradigm, enables users to bet on future events like elections and sports outcomes. Lara and her co-founder, Tarek Mansour, each hold approximately 12% of the company, resulting in net worths of $1.3 billion each. Before entering the crypto industry, Lara was a professional ballerina in Brazil and Austria, later studying computer science at MIT.