Celebrating 40+ Years
The cultural vibrancy of Raleigh-Durham, and its lush open spaces, offer clients rife opportunities for team building activities and events. Venture Up began in 1983, offering creative experience for individuals to reach their personal best. One success lead to another, and it wasn’t long before corporate leaders hired us to reinforce their professional teams. Today, more than 500,000 clients have been part of the Venture Up experience. We are the leading provider of team building events in the U.S. and abroad.
Popular Raleigh team building activities include Technicolor Transport, Bike Building for Charity, and the Amazing Race. We work with people of all shapes, sizes and cultural backgrounds; and offer team programs in cultural diversity. Other prime sites for our team building events include Charlotte, Winston Salem and Greensboro, North Carolina.
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 corporate Olympics is a creative mix of team competition, problem-solving challenges and fun. It can also be run inside or outdoors.
No manuals, no technical support and no two ways to create the life-size motorless car that will send your team “volunteer” across the finish line in winning style. Venture Up’s Mega Car 500 is a fun and colorful event that requires teams to design and produce human–propelled race vehicles from scratch.
Rise up to the challenge with our Team Survivor and Minute-to-Win- combo program, inspired by the popular TV shows. This interactive event relies on ingenuity, quick thinking, and skillful collaboration, and is suitable for teams diverse in every possible way.
The program is fast-paced, fun and competitive. Teams stay intact throughout the event, moving station-to-station, facing tricky obstacles and taking on problem-solving games. After successfully completing each challenge, teams win a certain number of beads depending on how quickly they finish each task. The more beads a teams wins, the closer they are to victory.
Being aware of the strict time limit energizes the team from the onset. They quickly engage, share their talents as they compete with other teams. They’re having fun, working intensely, under self-imposed pressure and find new ways to be efficient and productive at every turn.
The program culminates in a festive finale when all the teams return to the central meeting area. Top performers are announced, and the winning teams revel in victory. What has the most impact for many teams is how Venture Up leaders tie the experience in at the finale. Teams at work must stay competitive to keep a leading edge in driving their team, their department and company forward.
Ask us about these popular activities to include in your event: Rat-a-pult Building, The Maze, Teamwood, Bag-it, Arrowheads, Bit Dicey, String Race, Scrabbled, Focus Tubes, Minds that Matter, Inked, Knott’s Not, Flip It, Animal Crossing and many more.
Challenge your team’s creativity with Technicolor Transport. Techies, engineers and your average execs enjoy this problem-solving, hands-on event.
Venture Up’s Project 15 THE MAZE is designed for intact teams, virtual teams, or large corporate events in a general session. It’s a Strategic Game, based in sharing information and training around best practices, mitigating problems, achieving a unified goal across multiple areas.
Venture Up staff return Raleigh calls immediately and deliver proposals within a few 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 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 Raleigh and worldwide 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.
Venture Up also has a long-standing track record working 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 # 148821721
A high percentage of our team building business is generated from repeat clients and referrals. We are driven to innovate. We’re constantly developing new activities and sequences to meet the ever-changing needs of our clients. Today, team building activities are not considered a luxury, but essential in maintaining effective teamwork and building a strong corporate culture.
Our events run on average 2-4 hours. Because our programs are built to be flexible, we can adjust to just about any timeframe from fast 30-60 minute Strategic Energizers to multi-day training programs.
From your office, to hotel conference rooms, restaurants, factory floors, parks and many more. We make meetings fun wherever you are. All of our events are set up temporarily. Don't have a place yet? Send us your team's information for some local recommendations [email protected] or ask us about our Amazing Races in the Raleigh Durham area.
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.
Our pricing is all-inclusive with no hidden fees. We charge per-person which varies depending on factors like our availability, the program, and the number of participants. In general, our programs run roughly between $55-$165+ per person. Our team responds quickly with pricing and information on our team-building events so give us a call, text, or email today!
From 8 to 1000+ participants, we have you covered!
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.
