Patrick Comer
About Patrick Comer
Patrick Comer has worked as a founder, investor and executive at startups since 1998. He began as Chief of Staff at govWorks, an e-government startup featured in the documentary Startup.com. He moved into market research in 2003 at IFILM and joined OTX Research in 2005. He also founded the sample broker Sample Czar.
In 2010 he founded Lucid in New Orleans, a programmatic platform for market research sampling. Cint acquired Lucid in 2021. MarketScreener lists him as Chief Executive Officer and director of Cint Group AB since 2024, and as a founder of Gripnr. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a bachelor's degree from Sewanee. He was named Tulane Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year by the A.B. Freeman School of Business.
PitchBook classifies Comer as an active individual angel investor and lists him as actively seeking new investments. Its profile also describes him as a partner and co-founder at Restecher and a board member and co-founder at Nieux. Tracxn lists him as an angel investor in one startup. Beyond Molt AI, we found no public record of specific angel deals, check sizes or dates.
Comer is named as a participant in Molt AI's $1 million pre-seed round, announced in August 2026. Molt builds Fisher, a tool for testing the security and reliability of AI agents. The funds will go toward expanding Fisher, enterprise assessment and integration capacity, and research into agent behavior, action-level evaluation and verified remediation. Crunchbase also shows him as an investor in this round. The announcement does not state how much he invested.
Comer has made no public statement about the stages, sectors or check sizes he prefers. His one documented AI investment is a pre-seed round in AI agent security software. His operating background is in data, market research technology and marketplaces.
- Molt AI: AI agent assurance and adversarial testing software, maker of Fisher. Comer took part in its $1M pre-seed round in August 2026.
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- preqin.com/data/profile/asset/molt-ai-corp-/814032
- crunchbase.com/person/patrick-comer
- crunchbase.com/hub/closed-analytics-companies
- pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/1161821-71
- marketscreener.com/insider/PATRICK-COMER-A1FBH0
- greenbook.org/mr/author/pcomer
- medium.com/authority-magazine/patrick-comer-of-lucid-5-things-i-wish-s
Investing activity
Patrick Comer appears in 1 AI deal tracked by the Lounge deals desk. The rounds are mostly Pre-seed, with a median round size of $1M. The most recent is Molt AI (Pre-seed, $1M, Aug 2026).
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Patrick Comer
Has Patrick Comer invested in AI startups?
Yes. He is named as a participant in Molt AI's $1 million pre-seed round, announced in August 2026. Molt builds software for testing the security and reliability of AI agents.
Who is Patrick Comer?
He is the founder of Lucid, a market research sampling platform that Cint acquired in 2021. He is now CEO of Cint Group AB, according to MarketScreener, and is also an angel investor.
What check size does Patrick Comer write?
His check size is not public. The Molt AI announcement does not say how much he invested in the $1 million round.
What stage does Patrick Comer invest in?
The only AI investment we could confirm is a pre-seed round. He has made no public statement about stage preferences.
How can founders contact Patrick Comer?
He is on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/comerpatrick and on X as @comerpatrick. He has not published pitch guidelines that we could find.
Is Patrick Comer an angel investor?
Yes. Patrick Comer invests personally as an angel.
What AI companies has Patrick Comer invested in?
Patrick Comer's AI investments include Molt AI. The 1 round on Lounge are listed on this page with amounts, dates and co-investors.
What stage does Patrick Comer invest at?
In the rounds tracked on Lounge, Patrick Comer has invested at Pre-seed, with a median round of $1M.
How can founders reach Patrick Comer?
Founders on Lounge can see Patrick Comer's contact details in AI Investor Contacts (paid plans), check for a warm introduction through members who worked with them under Warm Paths, and add Patrick Comer to their Investor Pipeline to track the conversation.