"$500,000 (about Rs 4.8 crore)" is the figure Daily Excelsior reports for Arman Luthra, a 22-year-old from Jammu, and his AI startup Tilion, which joined Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch.
What Tilion builds
Tilion makes browser technology that lets AI agents load pages quickly and finish tasks without being blocked. Its browser engine, Fortress, has crossed one lakh installations and is used by more than 170 companies, the report says. It also says Tilion ranks first on ComputeSDK's Browser Lifecycle test and on BrowserArena's latency leaderboard, ahead of Browserbase, which raised $40 million last year at a $300 million valuation. These benchmark claims are the newspaper's; we have not verified them independently.
The team
- Arman Luthra: CEO; leads product and sales.
- Md Shahrier Islam Arham: CTO.
- Kazi Fardinul Hoque and Abdul Basit Tonmoy: AI systems and research.
The four met in the United States and are based in San Francisco. Luthra earlier built Scribia, an AI study app that reached 5,000 installations in two weeks when he was 19, and worked at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC.
Why it matters in Jammu
For students weighing a startup against a safe job, this is a concrete, if single-source, example of a Jammu school-to-global-accelerator path. Treat the funding amount as reported rather than confirmed: we could not find a second outlet or a Y Combinator directory entry to cross-check it.
Source: Daily Excelsior.
