Steve Chang
Founding Partner, Allomer Capital Group
Steven Chang is currently a Founding Partner at Allomer Capital Group. Before Allomer, Steven co-founded Clearlake Capital Group in 2006. Prior to co-founding Clearlake, He was a Partner and member of the investment committee at Tennenbaum Capital Partners, a private investment firm focused on distressed and other special situations investments. Previously, He was a Principal at Barnard & Co., a private equity investment group focused in the communications, consumer, healthcare and technology sectors. Before joining Barnard, he worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he was an investment analyst in proprietary special situations investing and an investment banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Healthcare Groups. Steve currently serves as a director of CompuDyne Corporation, Entelos, and Solutionary. He has previously served as a director of public and private companies, including most recently Lawson Software, Inc., Purple Communications, Celerity, Inc., Intentia International AB, ITC^Deltacom, Inc., Dialogic Corporation, Enterasys Networks, Inc. and Online Resources Corporation. Steve received both a B.S. and an M.S. in Biological Sciences and an A.B. with Distinction in Quantitative Economics from Stanford University.
Content & Articles by Steve Chang
How To Craft Your Website Messaging & Positioning as a Startup
In this Mucker Growth Series session, Anthony Pierri, co-founder of FletchPMM, walks through how to craft website messaging and positioning as a startup. FletchPMM is a consultancy that has worked...
2026 New York Tech Week Recap of Mucker Sessions
Mucker Capital went to New York Tech Week to host sessions for founders, operators, and builders thinking through how AI is changing product, growth, and search. Among the sessions were:...
Closing Enterprise Deals in Founder-Led Sales as a Startup
In our recent Mucker Growth Series session, I invited David Mackay, Managing Director at D9Y and one of our operating experts at Mucker, to talk about closing enterprise deals in...
The 10 Security Gaps That Plague Startups Before Their A Round
A NOTE ON SEVERITY Not every item on this list carries the same level of risk. Some are the kind of finding that stops a deal. Others are serious but...
Community-Led Growth for Startups: Why Most Communities Fail and How to Build One That Actually Works
In our recent Mucker Growth Series session, I invited Sam Jacobs — founder and CEO of Pavilion — to talk about community-led growth: what it actually means, why most communities...
Pricing Models & Monetization Systems for Startup Success
In our recent Mucker Growth Series webinar session, we invited Jeffrey Tjiok and Jack Benson from Simon-Kucher to break down how startups can build pricing into their DNA from day...