Celebrating 40+ Years
Planning team building activities in Raleigh for a meeting, training day, offsite, or employee event? Venture Up team building experiences are built to get people participating quickly, strengthen working relationships, and create momentum that carries into the rest of the meeting.
Since 1983, Venture Up has helped organizations turn meeting time into active, shared experience. Programs can be shaped around your group size, room setup, agenda timing, and meeting objectives.
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 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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
We offer Collaborative, Competitive and Charity (CSR) team building events in Raleigh and the surrounding areas for groups of 8-1000+ participants.
Per-person, no hidden fees. Pricing is based on availability, program type, and group size.
We serve all of North Carolina, including Charlotte, Winston-Salem, and Greensboro.
Our team building events typically run 2.5-4 hours. From 30-minutes to multi-day programming, we fit your schedule.
Venture Up supports Raleigh planners, HR teams, executive assistants, department leaders, trainers, and event organizers who need facilitated activities for meetings, trainings, retreats, conferences, and employee events.
Choose from Collaborative, Competitive, and Charity / CSR formats designed around your meeting objectives. Some mixed groups need a quick burst of energy before a planning session, while others are looking for communication, problem solving, leadership development, or a charitable project with a meaningful outcome.
For fast, high-energy competition, check out our Amazing Race. One of our most popular races takes place throughout the American Tobacco Historic District in nearby Durham. For a more collaborative focus, Strategic Games or Escape the Case challenge teams to communicate and work together through unique, engaging activities. If your group wants a service-focused experience, ask about charitable team-building options like Wagons-Ho! and Bike Builders.
Explore our team building activities to learn more about our competitive, collaborative, and charity-focused events.
In the Triangle, plans often include people coming in from Raleigh, Cary, Durham, RTP, Chapel Hill, and nearby offices. Many Raleigh-area groups are bringing together employees from multiple offices, departments, or hybrid teams, making participation and engagement important from the very start of the event.
You already have enough moving parts. Whether you are planning months ahead or working on short notice, Venture Up can help. Send your date, group size, meeting goals, available time, and venue details. Our staff responds quickly, and proposals are typically turned around within a few hours.
Much of our work comes from repeat clients and referrals. We’ve earned client trust because we focus on programs that fit the meeting goal, keep participation easy, and make the time worthwhile.
After 40+ years in business, from Fortune 100 teams to local departments, our goal stays the same: get people engaged fast, keep engagement high, and make meetings fun.
Ready to start planning? Send your date, group size, available time, meeting goals, and any venue constraints. We’ll recommend the programs that fit best and prepare a proposal for your Raleigh event.
Send the event date, estimated group size, meeting goals, available time, and the type of space you expect to use. Our staff responds quickly, and proposals are typically turned around within a few hours once the key details are clear.
Pricing is per person with no hidden fees. Final pricing depends on availability, program type, group size, and the details of the event.
We build custom Amazing Races, themed events and programs. We'd love to make your meeting better by reinforcing your brand and goals. Share what the event needs to accomplish so Venture Up can recommend a format that supports the purpose of the meeting.
When possible, starting about a month in advance helps with planning and availability. If the event is sooner or farther out, send the details anyway so Venture Up can review what may fit the timeline.
Many activity formats can be planned around group size, timing, and available space. Share your room setup or venue constraints so Venture Up can suggest an activity format that works with the space.
Yes. Venture Up can support groups meeting in Cary, Durham, RTP, Chapel Hill, and nearby Triangle locations. Share the actual meeting location so the recommended format fits the room, schedule, and group.
