NewsBytes · Jun 2026
Reports the founders raised ₹5 crore from Y Combinator for Tsenta and frames the company as an AI platform for speeding up job applications.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Tsenta is a Y Combinator S26 job-application automation startup that monitors 50,000+ career pages and auto-applies for users with AI-tailored resumes, cover letters, and form submissions. Public company sources describe it as a small, actively shipping product company aimed at students and job seekers; public reporting also says it began as a dorm project by Rose-Hulman students and later expanded into a multi-surface product across web, mobile, messaging, Chrome, and MCP.
Primary product
AI job application agent / auto-apply platform
Founded
2026
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Job application automation / HR tech
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Offices
Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Jul 2026
Latest amount
$500K
Jul 2026 · Y Combinator
Investors
Public hiring and company copy describe Tsenta as fast, student-centric, scrappy, transparent, and ownership-driven, with daily shipping and no approval chains. It emphasizes user control, showing every change before submission, and says it ships fixes quickly when users report real issues.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
The only explicit public compensation signal found was a remote Y Combinator job post for a UGC Creator role at $750/month. No broader public salary bands or employee benefit package were found.
Pricing
Freemium, volume-based subscription tiers with optional credit packs.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
approximately $195K-$579K/year (third-party estimate; midpoint about $351K/year)
Estimated monthly visits
119K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
NewsBytes · Jun 2026
Reports the founders raised ₹5 crore from Y Combinator for Tsenta and frames the company as an AI platform for speeding up job applications.
YourStory · Jun 2026
Profiles Tsenta as an AI job-application platform founded in 2025, names Agnay Srivastava as CEO and Pulkit Gupta as CTO, and says the startup had crossed 9,000 customers and grown revenue 5X month over month.
Inside Indiana Business · Apr 2026
Local coverage of the founders' YC acceptance and the $500K backing, focused on the Rose-Hulman student founders and their job-application automation product.
Rose-Hulman · Apr 2026
Official university coverage of Tsenta's Y Combinator acceptance and $500K funding; describes the product as an AI-powered job application tool founded by Agnay Srivastava and Pulkit Gupta.