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Trope launch: what they're building and where to launch next

What they're building

AI FDE that deploys custom AI agents into ERPs

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
B2B
Team size
2
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

trope.ai ↗

See their funding details ↗

Trope on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Trope deploys custom AI agents into ERPs for mid-market companies. Every ERP is heavily customized, so useful agents need custom deployment too. Trope’s AI FDE learns each business and ERP, then builds and deploys agents, turning the last mile from services into software. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Trope builds, tests, and deploys custom AI agents into the ERP you already run. Implementation fee: $0." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Matthew Chow, Founder/CEO: Co-Founder at Trope. Launched safety critical software for the Tesla Cybertruck and Zipline's autonomous drones. Won Stanford's largest hackathon using autonomous agents. Sales in Japan at Schneider Electric. UBC computer engineering grad. (source)
  • Victor Vannara, Founder/CTO: Co-Founder at Trope. Built the first AI customer support agent at Amazon Payments. Learned to code at 13 by building Discord bots used by 400k users. UBC computer science grad. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)

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Where else to launch Trope

  • Product Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Demand Curve ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • No Code Founders ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • OnlineGeniuses ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Product Makers ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • ProductLed ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group

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