Celebrating 40+ Years
Scottsdale brings conferences from around the world. We know planners and team leaders want more than a great destination. When it comes to building staff relationships, they trust Venture Up to energize teams in a fun, productive way that supports meeting objectives.
Fast engagement. High participation. Better outcomes.
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 and built with 40+ years of professional team development 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.
Mini Car 500 is a fast-paced engineering challenge where teams turn a small block of wood into a gravity-powered race car. Teams construct and test miniature cars, refining their builds to maximize speed and performance before the final race. With races decided by fractions of a second, the program delivers focused collaboration, excitement, and only one Mini Car 500 Champion.
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.
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.
Paper Drone Airplane Challenge is a high-energy build-and-fly team experience where creativity meets controlled chaos. Teams design and modify paper aircraft using provided templates, then transform them into powered paper drones using Bluetooth-controlled modules. Judged on flight performance and design, the program delivers experimentation, iteration, and a lot of fun crashes along the way.
Collaborative, competitive, and charity-based events
Most programs run 2–4 hours, with shorter and multi-part options available
Hotels, resorts, conference rooms, ballrooms, offices, and outdoor spaces (weather permitting)
8 to 1,000+ participants
Venture Up (est. 1983) has a long history of building corporate team relationships with over 500,000 participants. Our programs emphasize employee engagement and the practical benefits that come from stronger communication, trust, and collaboration. Scottsdale groups often include mixed roles and personalities in the room, so our facilitation is designed to be professional, inclusive, and easy to join in, even for senior-level or cross-functional teams.
Venture Up runs programs across Arizona, including Scottsdale, Phoenix, Tucson, Sedona, and Flagstaff. We deliver indoors or outdoors (weather permitting) wherever your meeting is. Don’t have a place in mind yet? Tell us your group size and schedule. We’ll recommend options.
Venture Up staff return calls quickly and can typically deliver proposals within a few hours. We work on short notice or plan months ahead. You can expect a smooth process, clear options, and a well-run event that supports your meeting.
Around 80% of our work comes from repeat clients and referrals. We’ve been running team building since 1983, and we keep refining programs to match what modern teams need. Our clients choose Venture Up because we have a history of delivering great events.
Pricing is per person and all inclusive. Our fees are based on group size, our schedule, and program type. Contact us with your group information and we'll send over some ideas.
Our Scottsdale race runs throughout the Old Town area and can end at any bar or restaurant nearby. Ask us for some great ending locations!
Yes. Venture Up was founded in Phoenix.
