Celebrating 40+ Years
Venture Up designs and facilitates team building events throughout San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. Our programs include Field & Indoor Games, Bike Building, and Strategic Games. Since 1983, our work in San Francisco has grown through repeat clients who ask for programs that stay fresh, relevant, and effective year after year. More than 500,000 participants have taken part in Venture Up experiences, representing a wide range of industries, team sizes, and professional backgrounds.
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.
San Francisco teams value programs that are engaging, purposeful, and well run. Venture Up events are designed to work equally well in conference facilities, corporate offices, outdoor spaces, and retreat settings throughout the Bay Area. Our facilitators regularly work with teams that reflect the cultural and professional diversity that defines San Francisco.
San Francisco sits at the center of global business education and innovation. The city serves as the West Coast home for the Wharton School of Business executive programs and is closely connected to Stanford University’s executive education in Palo Alto. Venture Up experiential learning programs are frequently integrated into executive education sessions and leadership programs in San Francisco and throughout the Bay Area.
A majority of our San Francisco team building work comes from repeat clients and referrals. We do not rely on advertising. Our work continues because organizations trust the experience we deliver. Venture Up supports corporate teams as well as government and non-profit organizations, including school districts, charities, and federal agencies such as the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, and U.S. Special Forces.
We regularly facilitate programs for Fortune 100 firms and teams of all sizes, physical abilities, and cultural backgrounds. Team building groups in San Francisco typically range from 8 to 1,000 or more. US Duns #148821721
