Celebrating 40+ Years
Sacramento has long been under-rated as a conference destination, and has plenty of venues supporting a successful and affordable Sacramento team building event. Since 1983, Venture Up has provided team building activities in Sacramento, northern California, mainly in San Francisco and Lake Tahoe, where conference fees run high. Sacramento is smack between these cities and has luxury hotels, lush public grounds and waterways rivaling any conference destination in the U.S. It’s easy to be in the shadows in the great state of California. The good news is that Sacramento is still a well-kept secret, and still far more affordable than many California destinations. (Southwest flies here too!)
Since 1983, Venture Up has recorded more than 500,000 participants in its team building events, Sacramento included. We owe our California clients and conference visitors much for helping us be a success, and the leading provider of team building activities. We work with groups of all shapes and sizes, and focus on diversity and inclusion in building team relationships.
Strategic Games is a Dynamic team-building program that is filled with fast-paced problem-solving challenges that reinforce the core values of teams and strategic goals of your organization. Participants are intentionally mixed and remixed across activities, encouraging cross-department collaboration and exposes team members to new perspectives, strengths, and working styles. With every completed challenge, the bar is raised…
Venture Up’s Bike Builder Challenge for Kids in Need is our most popular charity team building event. Teams warm up with quick Energizers, then assemble, decorate, and safety test brand-new bikes for under served children ages 5 to 10. Each group receives a child’s name and creates a personalized bike and card, delivering a fast, meaningful, and highly rewarding team experience.
Venture Up’s Amazing Race is a fast-paced, city-based team building adventure where teams solve clues, complete challenges, and navigate local landmarks. Designed for all abilities – correctness matters more than speed! Each race features location-specific tasks, and bonus challenges. There’s no better way to experience a city than in this memorable, high-energy group event!
Minutes-to-Win-It and Team Survivors is a fast-paced, high-energy team challenge inspired by classic competition shows. Teams face a multitude of mental and light physical challenges that reward creativity, communication, and collaboration. From indoors to outdoors and small to large spaces and groups, this event is our favorite on-site competitive program.
Escape the Case is Venture Up’s hit conference-room escape game is for groups of 10-500+. Teams organize fractured clues through a series of locked metal cases using clues, ciphers, and clever tools. Fast, high-tech, and wildly fun, with a surprise final collaboration twist to unite the group. Lightly based on the escape room concept and built with 40+ years of professional team development experience.
Game-On Olympics is a high-energy team competition blending creative challenges, problem-solving, and friendly rivalry. Teams face off across multiple stations, earning points as they compete for medals and recognition. Designed for indoor or outdoor spaces, the event features a fun opening ceremony and a down-to-the-wire finish before Bronze, Silver, and Gold claim their podium.
Mega Car 500 is a high-energy engineering challenge where teams design, build, and race life-size, human-powered vehicles with no instructions and no preset solutions. Using provided materials, groups collaborate to create functional cars that must carry a teammate through a competitive course. The experience builds to a crowd-cheered race and awards ceremony, delivering creativity, collaboration, and bragging rights.
Team Survivor | Minutes-to-Win-It delivers nonstop action through short, engaging challenges that test problem-solving, teamwork, and adaptability. Teams stay intact as they rotate through a series of mental, creative, and light physical challenges, earning points with every success. Designed to reward ingenuity, communication, and collaboration this flexible event is a blast for competitive teams.
Mega Boat Regatta is a high-energy build-and-race challenge where teams design and construct life-size, human-powered boats with no instructions and no preset solutions. Using provided materials, and no-instructions teams collaborate to create water-worthy vessels before racing them head-to-head. The experience is unique, fun and rewarding for racers and spectators alike.
Have a small time window and looking for a charity event that makes a real impact? Check out Stuff-A-Thon! a fast pace charity energizer focused on doing the most amount of good in the shortest period of time. Stuffed animals are high-quality and donated to local charities, police and firefighters. Each animal donated is given directly to the local organization who then gifts the animal to a child in need.
Wagons Ho! is a collaborative charity team-building experience designed for groups of all sizes and backgrounds. Teams work together to build high-quality wagons and prepare stuffed animals that are donated to a local charity or family support organization. Along the way, teams personalize their donations with handwritten cards, decorated T-shirts, and more.
Venture Up’s Bridge Builders is a fresh take on the classic engineering challenge designed specifically for meetings and time frames of 1.5-2.5 hours. Teams are tasked to build up to 3 specific bridge styles with limited supplies and given unexpected requirements that push teams to think fast, make decisions, and produce a finished product within the allotted time.
Project 15: The Maze is a highly strategic simulation designed to show how multiple teams collaborate toward a single organizational goal. Small groups work simultaneously on interconnected tasks, requiring communication, integration, and learning across boundaries. The program highlights how alignment and shared insight drive success beyond individual or departmental performance.
Technicolor Transport is a hands-on problem-solving challenge where teams design, build, and operate a custom fluid-transport system. Participants collaborate to create a working solution, then rely solely on valves to route colored fluids accurately. This unique event emphasizes efficiency, team decision-making, and execution under pressure. It’s harder than it looks!
Venture Up staff return team building Sacramento calls immediately and deliver proposals usually within a few hours of contact, and surely within 24 hours. We work on short notice, or plan months ahead. You can expect us to handle the details and stay in touch, so you have the peace of mind and the freedom to tend to other matters of your conference. Our aim is to exceed your expectations, and history shows we can.
About 80 percent of our team building business involves corporate clients, who prove that word of mouth is the greatest advertising. We also work with many government and non-profit groups; school districts, charities, and federal agencies, such as the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, and U.S. Special Forces.
with Fortune 100 firms, and with people of all shapes, sizes, physical abilities and cultural backgrounds. Team Building groups range in sizes range from 8 to 1,000 or more. US Duns # 148821721A high percentage of our team building business in Sacramento and around the world is generated from repeat clients and referrals, so we are driven towards innovation. We’re on a non-stop course developing new methods, activities and sequences to meet the needs of our clients. In these changing times, team building activities are not a luxury, but essential in strengthening the corporate culture.
Some of Sacramento’s favorite team building events are Team Survivor, Lip Sync Battle Dramatica, Salsa Mania, and of course the classic Escape Case!
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