Celebrating 40+ Years
Planning a meeting, training day, or offsite in Raleigh? Venture Up designs and facilitates team building experiences that fit your group and your space while reinforcing company goals and culture. Our programs are built to get people participating quickly, strengthen working relationships, and create momentum that carries into the rest of the meeting.
Venture Up has been facilitating team building since 1983. Teams book us because it has to be fun, applicable, and worth the time on a real meeting schedule.
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 but 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 underserved 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.
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.
In the Triangle, plans often include people coming in from across Raleigh, Cary, Durham, and RTP-area offices.
You already have enough moving parts. Send your date, group size, and meeting goals. Our staff responds quickly, and proposals are typically turned around within a few hours. If you’re comparing options, start with our team building activities and we’ll help you match the right program to your meeting goals.
Whether you are planning months ahead or working on short notice, you can expect tight coordination, practical guidance, and professional facilitation from start to finish.
Around 80% of our Raleigh-area team building comes from repeat clients and referrals. That word-of-mouth is earned by putting the client first and running programs that match real meeting goals.
We work with corporate, government, and nonprofit groups at every level of the organization. In the Raleigh and RTP footprint, that commonly means tech, healthcare, and public-sector teams in and around Wake County. From Fortune 100 teams to local departments, the goal stays the same: get people engaged fast, keep that engagement high, and make participation easy.
With 40+ years of experience, we keep refining formats and program flow so teams align faster, communicate better, and carry momentum back into the workplace.
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We recommend booking 1-month in advance to ensure availability. No matter if your event is in 2 days or 2 years, let us know! We'd be happy to help make it a fantastic experience for your team.
We build custom Amazing Races, themed events and programs all of the time! We'd love to make your meeting better by reinforcing your brand and goals so make sure to let us know and we'll put together some ideas.
