Overview
- Forbes now pegs Kalshi’s value at roughly €9.5 billion (about $11 billion), which places Luana Lopes Lara’s stake near €1.1 billion based on reported ownership of about 12%.
- Co-founder Tarek Mansour, also 29, is reported to hold a similar 12% stake with an estimated net worth of about €1.1 billion.
- Kalshi operates a federally approved platform where users trade contracts on future events such as elections, sports and pop culture, while such prediction markets are banned under German gambling law.
- Company figures cited in coverage say Kalshi processed $5.8 billion in trading volume in November, exceeding rival Polymarket’s $4.3 billion.
- The designation displaces Taylor Swift and Scale AI cofounder Lucy Guo as the previously cited youngest self-made female billionaires.