# Trope

[Trope on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/trope)

Startup · 2 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://trope.ai/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trope)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tropeai)
- [X](https://x.com/trope_ai)

## About

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## YC company profile

AI FDE that deploys custom AI agents into ERPs

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.

- **YC batch:** Summer 2026
- **Founded:** 2026
- **Team size:** 2
- **Location:** San Francisco
- **Country:** US
- **Status:** Active
- **Industry:** B2B
- **Stage:** Early
- **Tags:** SaaS, B2B, AI
- **YC partner:** Jon Xu

## Founders

### Matthew Chow — Founder

Co-Founder at Trope. Safety critical firmware for the Tesla Cybertruck. Autonomous drone manufacturing at Zipline. Industrial software at Schneider Electric in Japan. UBC computer engineering grad.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdchow/) · [X](https://x.com/mattchowx)

### Victor Vannara — Founder

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.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-vannara/) · [X](https://x.com/victorvannara)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trope) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Matthew Chow](https://hacklab.so/matthew-chow) — Founder (Present)
- [Victor Vannara](https://hacklab.so/victor-vannara) — Founder (Present)