Two college students who struck out in the internship hunt built a company that now claims it's automating job applications for tens of thousands of users—and pulling in revenue that would make many established startups envious.
Agnay Srivastava, the CEO of Tsenta, posted on LinkedIn that his Y Combinator-backed startup hit $170,000 in monthly recurring revenue by early fall, up from $17,000 just seven weeks prior—though the claim has drawn skepticism in online discussions. The company's profile on Y Combinator's website puts annualized revenue around $3 million within three months of launching, though a separate recruiting post references $2.5 million. Either figure represents the kind of traction that turns heads in Silicon Valley, particularly for a two-person operation.
The premise is straightforward, if contentious: Tsenta automates the entire job application process, handling everything from résumé tailoring to form-filling across dozens of applicant tracking systems. The company says more than 90,000 job seekers now use its service as of early September 2026.
When 3,000 applications becomes the norm
Srivastava's motivation was personal frustration. As an international student at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, he submitted applications to somewhere between 2,500 and 3,000 internships, he told the Indian business publication Moneycontrol last summer. The yield: 10 to 12 callbacks. The math was brutal, and the tools available to speed up the process either lacked transparency or cost too much for students scraping by on limited budgets.
"The tools available were either not transparent about how they worked, or not affordable for students like us," he said in an interview with YourStory, another Indian tech publication.
He and Pulkit Gupta, his co-founder and CTO, started building Tsenta in early 2026. Both studied computer science at Rose-Hulman; Srivastava had worked at VIAVI in systems roles and at Paytm in software engineering, while Gupta built full-stack systems at several startups, including one called Multibhashi that reportedly crossed a million downloads. By April, they'd been accepted into Y Combinator's summer batch and received $500,000 in funding. The iOS app went live at the end of June.
What they built goes well beyond the browser extensions that merely autofill forms. Tsenta monitors tens of thousands of company career pages, matches open roles to user profiles, rewrites résumés and cover letters for each position, logs into supported ATS portals—Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Oracle Cloud, among others—fills out application fields including those dreaded open-ended prompts, uploads documents, hits submit, and then tracks responses by parsing recruiter emails. Users access the system through a web dashboard, native mobile apps for iOS and Android, desktop software across platforms, chat interfaces via iMessage and WhatsApp, a Chrome extension, and even an MCP server for connecting to AI agents like Claude.
The pricing model charges by volume rather than features. Twenty-five applications come free without a credit card. After that, users pay $19.99, $39.99, or $99.99 monthly for 600, 1,500, or 4,500 applications, respectively. A developer API launched in August costs nine cents per submitted application; failed submissions don't incur charges.
Growing faster than expected
The user base doubled month-over-month through mid-2026, when Tsenta reported 9,000 customers to YourStory. By August, the company's Y Combinator launch post cited 45,000 users. The most recent figure—more than 90,000—appears on the company's Y Combinator profile, though it's unclear exactly when that threshold was crossed.
Revenue climbed in step. The company added a "Review Before Submit" feature in early July, presumably in response to user concerns about sending off applications without human oversight. Over 70 percent of paid users have landed interviews, the company claimed in its August launch post, with name-drops including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, NVIDIA, SpaceX, and Scale AI. The Google Play listing shows over 5,000 Android downloads with a 3.5-star rating from 27 reviews as of early September.
Those numbers suggest rapid adoption, but they also hint at the scale of the problem Tsenta is addressing. If users are genuinely submitting thousands of applications each, the job market has reached a strange equilibrium where both sides—applicants and recruiters—are drowning in volume.
Privacy concerns and competitor battles
Granting an application access to your email inbox raises obvious red flags. Tsenta addressed this head-on in its FAQ: the system only looks for job-search-related messages, never uses email for advertising, and never trains AI models on user data. The company's AI disclosure page emphasizes that every change is shown to users before submission.
Tsenta competes in a crowded field. Browser extensions like Simplify, Teal, and Jobright offer autofill capabilities but don't handle full submissions, at least according to Tsenta's positioning. Cloud-based rivals include LazyApply, JobCopilot, AIApply, and LoopCV, which Tsenta describes as limited to quick-apply flows on job boards rather than full ATS integration. The company lists at least 19 named applicant tracking systems it supports on its AI disclosure page, with developer documentation referencing 28 to 29 systems and marketing materials citing "over 30."
The discrepancy in those numbers is minor but telling—fast-growing startups often struggle to keep their public-facing materials in sync as they ship new integrations.
What happens next
Srivastava and Gupta remain a two-person team. While their Y Combinator profile lists San Francisco as their operational base, the company's registration details point to Terre Haute, Indiana. The company posted a founding engineer role in Bengaluru during the summer batch window, visible on Y Combinator's job board.
"We're not just improving productivity. We're changing how people apply for jobs altogether," Gupta told Moneycontrol. That's the kind of sweeping claim that accelerators love and skeptics question, but the revenue trajectory suggests the founders are onto something, even if the long-term implications remain murky.
Y Combinator's Summer 2026 Demo Day was scheduled for mid-September, giving Tsenta a chance to pitch investors on sustaining its tenfold growth over seven weeks. Whether that trajectory holds depends on several variables outside the founders' control: whether the job market's application volume problem persists, whether recruiters develop ways to filter out AI-generated submissions at scale, and whether regulators eventually step in to police automated applications.
The company maintains an aggregated jobs index showing over four million positions, and it continues to ship product updates regularly. The iOS app reached version 1.4.2 in late August; the Chrome extension launched around the same time. For now, Tsenta is riding a wave created by a broken system—one where quantity has eclipsed quality, and where two students who couldn't land internships found a way to turn their frustration into a business.
