Jeff Sakaguchi

Former Chairman, Board of Directors, True Blue, Inc.

📍 Manhattan Beach, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2024
VC🌍 United States
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Angel Investor and Advisor
Apr 2024
🛑 The Problem: The Old Way is Too Slow and Too Costly. Most businesses still spend weeks or months building sales and marketing plans that are outdated before they’re finished. Manual processes, scattered tools, and disconnected CRMs eat time, money, and opportunities. ✅Solution: StrikeZone is a Unified, AI-powered Go-to-Market, Marketing Analytics and Lead to Meeting Conversion Platform that delivers results fast. Growth Now Demands Precision and Speed. Customers expect the right message, at the right time, on the right channel. Without StrikeZone’s smarter targeting and faster execution, businesses waste resources chasing the wrong leads while competitors close deals. AI is the New Advantage — Don’t Get Left Behind. The world has shifted. AI is no longer “nice to have” — it’s the unfair advantage for businesses that want predictable growth. StrikeZone brings AI-powered planning, targeting, and lead conversion to every business, so you can scale profits today — not someday. ✅ Modernize CRM, Marketing Automation, and Analytics ✅ Protect existing investments in CRM & sales and marketing automations ✅ Deploy your personal AI Sales Manager working 24/7 — on demand ✅ Automate Go-to-Market strategy, Ideal Client Profiles (ICP), and Precision Buyer Personas ✅ Implement Hot and Warm Lead to SQL (Sales Qualified Lead) Meeting methodology & SOPs ✅ Automate Opportunity Qualification frameworks and best practices ✅ Plan and launch full sales strategies in days — not months of manual work and costs ✅ Build new business, account, or marketing plans in a fraction of the time ✅ Access AI-powered marketing managers and analytics instantly ✅ Automate "look-alike" audience creation across industries using proprietary AgenticAI ✅ Generate CRM-ready precision buyer personas in days, not weeks ✅ Predictably transform cold leads into SQL meetings and revenue opportunities
Board Member
Sep 2019
ThinkIQ, a pioneer of Digital Manufacturing Transformation SaaS, delivers unprecedented material traceability and insight into ways to improve yield, quality, safety, compliance and brand confidence. Our fact-based granular and data-centric contextualized view of material flows and related provenance attribute data integrates into existing IoT infrastructures and crosses supply chains to manufacturing processes and beyond. Our customers have saved $10’s of millions by identifying waste and underperforming assets, as well as reducing warranty reserves for quality and safety issues. ThinkiQ is a privately held company headquartered in Irvine, CA, and has already helped transform lines at General Mills, McCain, Corning and Mars.
Board Member
Dec 2010
Eccentex is a leading low-code platform for Case Management and Customer Service
Experience · 7 entries
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Investments (4)
Board (3)
2024
Angel Investor and Advisor
Apr 2024
🛑 The Problem: The Old Way is Too Slow and Too Costly. Most businesses still spend weeks or months building sales and marketing plans that are outdated before they’re finished. Manual processes, scattered tools, and disconnected CRMs eat time, money, and opportunities. ✅Solution: StrikeZone is a Unified, AI-powered Go-to-Market, Marketing Analytics and Lead to Meeting Conversion Platform that delivers results fast. Growth Now Demands Precision and Speed. Customers expect the right message, at the right time, on the right channel. Without StrikeZone’s smarter targeting and faster execution, businesses waste resources chasing the wrong leads while competitors close deals. AI is the New Advantage — Don’t Get Left Behind. The world has shifted. AI is no longer “nice to have” — it’s the unfair advantage for businesses that want predictable growth. StrikeZone brings AI-powered planning, targeting, and lead conversion to every business, so you can scale profits today — not someday. ✅ Modernize CRM, Marketing Automation, and Analytics ✅ Protect existing investments in CRM & sales and marketing automations ✅ Deploy your personal AI Sales Manager working 24/7 — on demand ✅ Automate Go-to-Market strategy, Ideal Client Profiles (ICP), and Precision Buyer Personas ✅ Implement Hot and Warm Lead to SQL (Sales Qualified Lead) Meeting methodology & SOPs ✅ Automate Opportunity Qualification frameworks and best practices ✅ Plan and launch full sales strategies in days — not months of manual work and costs ✅ Build new business, account, or marketing plans in a fraction of the time ✅ Access AI-powered marketing managers and analytics instantly ✅ Automate "look-alike" audience creation across industries using proprietary AgenticAI ✅ Generate CRM-ready precision buyer personas in days, not weeks ✅ Predictably transform cold leads into SQL meetings and revenue opportunities
2019
Board Member
Sep 2019
ThinkIQ, a pioneer of Digital Manufacturing Transformation SaaS, delivers unprecedented material traceability and insight into ways to improve yield, quality, safety, compliance and brand confidence. Our fact-based granular and data-centric contextualized view of material flows and related provenance attribute data integrates into existing IoT infrastructures and crosses supply chains to manufacturing processes and beyond. Our customers have saved $10’s of millions by identifying waste and underperforming assets, as well as reducing warranty reserves for quality and safety issues. ThinkiQ is a privately held company headquartered in Irvine, CA, and has already helped transform lines at General Mills, McCain, Corning and Mars.
2015
ACT Holdings, Inc.
Board Member
Jun 2015
2010
Lead Independent Director
Dec 2010
TrueBlue (NYSE: TBI) is a leading staffing, recruiting and workforce management company. The company fills individual positions on demand, staffs entire facilities, and manages outsourced recruiting processes and staffing vendor programs for a wide variety of clients. The company's specialized workforce solutions meet clients'​ needs for a reliable, efficient workforce in a wide variety of industries including-- construction, energy, manufacturing, financial services, pharmaceuticals, transportation, aviation and energy. TrueBlue assigns as many as 100,000 people to work each day, drawing from a data base of hundreds of thousands of candidates, and places more than 250,000 people in permanent positions each year.
Board Member
Dec 2010
Eccentex is a leading low-code platform for Case Management and Customer Service
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