Eileen Tanghal is the co-founder and Managing Director of Black Opal Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in hard tech healthcare. Eileen has almost twenty years of venture capital experience. She has been involved with and sat on the boards of over 40 high-tech startup companies in the US and Europe as a financial venture capitalist, corporate venture capitalist, and on behalf of the US intelligence community. At Black Opal Ventures, she has led investments in Hyro, Tigergraph, and Blaze.tech. Eileen served as Senior Partner and Managing Director of In-Q-Tel. Prior to In-Q-Tel, Eileen was Vice President of New Business Ventures at Arm and General Manager of the Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials. She began her career in the UK as an associate with Amadeus Capital Partners and then a Director for Kennet Partners. Prior to entering venture capital, she was part of the founding engineering team at PDF Solutions, a successful semiconductor startup company (Ticker: PDFS). At Applied Materials she received the Silicon Valley TWIN award for executive women. Eleen has been features in Forbes, IEEE Spectrum, and the Venture Capital Journal. She serves on the board of TigerGraph and Hyro and led investments in Ansa, Outpace, Parasail, and Blaze. She is an MIT alum (electrical engineering) and London Business School alum (MBA). Eileen serves on the Advisory Board of St. Charles elementary school in San Carlos, CA and on the financial committee of Notre Dame High School for girls in San Jose, CA.
