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Celebrating 40+ Years
San Francisco Team Building Events
Venture Up’s creative team building activities in San Francisco include our Field & Indoor Games, Bike Building and Strategic Games. Since 1983 we evolved by innovation, as our repeat clients continued to demand something different, something new, year after year. Today we are the leading provider of team building events, with more than 250,000 clients. We work with people of all shapes, sizes and cultural backgrounds; and may offer multi-cultural programs in several languages. We owe much thanks to San Francisco clients for our success.
One thing that puts San Francisco on the forefront for staff development is its connection with world class business education. San Francisco is the west coast home for the Wharton School of Business , of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Penn’s Ivy League presence in San Francisco is right in line with executive education at Stanford University in Palo Alto. In 2015, Stanford Business School robbed Harvard of its long-held role as the top business school in the nation.
Venture Up’s experiential learning sessions are often integrated into executive education programs in San Francisco, and at leading universities across the U.S.
Featured Events
Bike Building
Bike Building for kids in need is our most popular charity-based team building event. Our corporate clients have donated more than 15,000 bikes to underserved children, often high achievers who lack financial resources or may come from struggling single-parent families. Corporate giving has gained momentum in the last decade, and we expect to expand our reach to developing countries, where adults and children use bikes not just for play, but for work and as their main source of transportation.
Our traditional bike building events begin with Strategic Games, a program designed to energize and motivate teams for the tasks ahead. Some challenges may be cooperative, while others involve friendly competition. As we progress to the bike building session, teams with assigned children’s names get to work creating poster-sized cards for each bike.
Amazing Race
Amazing Race Locations:
Pittsburgh – Las Vegas – New Orleans – San Diego – Santa Monica – Richmond – Portland – Scottsdale – Boston – Buffalo – Detroit – Minneapolis – Nashville – Omaha – Milwaukee – Raleigh – St. Louis – Virginia Beach – Chicago – Atlanta – Madison – Columbus – Charlotte – Phoenix – Atlanta – Puerto Rico – South Beach – Ft. Lauderdale – Birmingham – Little Rock – Greenville – Dallas – San Antonio – Houston – Park City – San Juan – and more.
Minutes To Win It
Rise to the challenge and fun with Venture Up’s Team Survivor and Minutes-to-Win-It event. Inspired by the popular TV shows, this combo program is competitive and geared for all abilities and professional levels. Teams stay intact and compete head-to-head through a course of mental challenges. No need for athletes on this event since activities are doable for all levels when some games call for physical involvement, which is always voluntary.
Escape Case
“”Think Inside The Box?” That’s what Venture Up’s new, portable, conference room escape game is all about. Perfect for groups of 25 to 500. If you liked Escape Rooms, you’ll love “Escape The Case“.
Game On Olympics
Game On corporate Olympics is a creative mix of team competition, problem-solving challenges and fun. It can also be run inside or outdoors.
Mega Car 500
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.
Team Survivor
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.
Mega Boat Regatta
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.
Customer Focus
Venture Up staff return calls immediately and deliver proposals for team building in San Francisco usually within a few hours, always within 24 hours. We work on short notice, or plan months ahead. You can expect us to manage the details and stay in touch, so you have the peace of mind and the freedom to tend to other matters of your team building event. Our aim is to keep your experience stress-free, and exceed your expectations. History shows we can.
San Francisco Clients
About 80 percent of our team building San Francisco and world wide 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.
Many of our team building clients are also winners of the J. D. Power & Associates Award — and J. D. Power & Associates itself is on our client list. 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
San Francisco Team Building Locations
Cordevalle is a popular retreat for Silicon Valley techies, and just 30 miles from San Jose.
Fun Facts
- San Francisco was not always so tolerant. In 1867, San Francisco instituted America’s first “ugly law,” which prohibited unattractive people from showing their faces in public. (It’s since been repeal
- Cable cars in San Francisco are the only National Historic Monument that can move.
- Recycling may have begun in San Francisco. When gold fever struck, the city port became packed with abandoned ships. The ships were dismantled and repurposed into banks, businesses, and homes.
- The Beatles gave their last full concert at Candlestick Park in 1966.
- During the Depression, all San Francisco banks survived.