Sarah Adams

Sarah is a Partner & Head of Platform at Myriad Venture Partners, where she leads the firm’s platform strategy to drive portfolio value creation and deepen corporate partnerships. She works with founders and enterprise leaders to scale go-to-market execution, strengthen operating foundations, and unlock strategic collaborations that advance the Myriad Model, pairing early capital with powerful enterprise partnerships.

Prior to Myriad, Sarah founded Cribstone Ventures, an angel investment platform focused on frontier technologies across AI, enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, and verticalized applications. She was previously a Principal at Consello, advising Fortune 500 executives on M&A and value-creation initiatives. Earlier in her career, Sarah launched and scaled Microsoft’s first operating group focused on PE and VC strategy, where she advised portfolio companies of top-tier funds on go-to-market, cloud transformation and growth strategy. Prior to Microsoft, Sarah held investment and platform roles at Goldman Sachs, JLL Partners, and Duke Capital Partners. Sarah began her career abroad in China as an operator at an early-stage enterprise SaaS startup.

Sarah brings more than 15 years of experience spanning investing, operating, and strategic advisory roles across venture capital, private equity and enterprise technology. She has built and scaled new business functions inside Fortune 500s, advised hundreds of startups on growth and commercialization, and developed global networks connecting founders, investors, and corporate innovators. Known for bridging strategy with execution, she focuses on helping companies move from early traction to scalable growth.

Sarah earned her Master of Business Administration from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a Bachelor of Art degree in History and Economics from Bowdoin College.