Celebrating 40+ Years
Venture Up delivers professional team building events and activities for organizations in Richmond and throughout the region. Since 1983, more than 500,000 participants nationwide have taken part in Venture Up programs. We work with businesses of all sizes and with teams from a wide range of industries. Our facilitators are experienced working with people of all shapes, sizes, and cultural backgrounds, creating inclusive programs that actively engage participants and strengthen how teams work together.
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 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.
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 but built with 40+ years of professional team development 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.
No direction. No instructors … and no two ways to build the life-size motor-free boat that will send your team across the finish line in winning style. Quick collective thinking, creativity and problem-solving are critical to making an efficient water-worthy vessel in record time.
About 80 percent of our team building work comes from corporate clients, supported by long-term partnerships and referrals. We also work with government and non-profit organizations, school districts, charities, and federal agencies, including the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, and U.S. Special Forces.
Venture Up clients are leaders in their industries, recognized for strong teams, high standards, and results-driven cultures. We have a long-standing track record working with Fortune 100 firms and facilitating programs for people of all shapes, sizes, physical abilities, and cultural backgrounds. Team building group sizes typically range from 8 to 1,000 or more. US Duns # 148821721
Venture Up staff respond quickly and deliver proposals promptly. We support both short-notice requests and long-term planning. From initial coordination through event delivery, we manage the details and stay in touch, giving you peace of mind and the freedom to focus on other priorities related to your team building event. Our history reflects that commitment.
A significant portion of our Richmond team building work comes from repeat clients and referrals, which drives our focus on continuous improvement. We regularly refine existing programs and develop new experiences to keep activities fresh, engaging, and relevant. Today, team building plays an essential role in strengthening work relationships and supporting a healthy corporate culture.