Luana Lopes Lara, born in Brazil in 1996, is an entrepreneur and former ballerina. During her youth, she won a gold medal for the Brazilian Astronomy Olympiad and a bronze at the Santa Catarina Mathematics Olympiad. She attended the Bolshoi Ballet Academy for eight years and later studied computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), graduating in 2018. While at MIT, Lara interned at Bridgewater Associates and Citadel Securities.