Celebrating 40+ Years
Since 1983, Venture Up has facilitated corporate team building programs for organizations across the corporate, government, and nonprofit sectors. We design and lead professionally run experiences that bring people together fast based on your team and meeting goals. The result is stronger collaboration, better engagement, and momentum that carries into the rest of the meeting and beyond.
We make events that engage fast, keep engagement high, and make participation fun.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Technicolor Transport is a hands-on problem-solving challenge where teams design, build, and operate a custom fluid-transport system. Participants collaborate to create a working solution, then rely solely on valves to route colored fluids accurately. This unique event emphasizes efficiency, team decision-making, and execution under pressure. It’s harder than it looks!
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.
Per-person, all-inclusive. Rates vary by program type, group size, and availability.
Any general open space like conference rooms, hotel meeting spaces, offices, ballrooms, courtyards, parks etc.
Designed to be flexible, on average they run 2.5 hours. Tell us your time frame, well send ideas.
Collaborative, Competitive and Charity Events. Tell us about your meeting, we’ll recommend events.
Venture Up’s Washington, D.C. programs are built to energize and support the meeting goals at the same time. We know D.C. teams often have limited time, high expectations, and mixed roles in the room, including corporate, government, and nonprofit groups meeting for offsites and conferences from across the region and overseas.
That’s why we always recommend our Strategic Games, and why we start almost every event with a Strategic style introduction. This event is our longest running activity and its elements echo through almost every program like Escape the Case, Bike Builders, Game-On Olympics and more. To understand our team building philosophy, check out Strategic Games.
Venture Up runs team building programs throughout Washington, D.C. and the surrounding areas, including nearby areas such as Arlington, Alexandria, Bethesda, Silver Spring, and Baltimore, as well as locations across Virginia and Maryland. Programs can be delivered indoors or outdoors (weather permitting) wherever your meeting is taking place.
Our Amazing Race is set up in multiple locations in the D.C. and surrounding area.
Venture Up has been facilitating corporate team building since 1983 – before the industry even had a name. More than 80% of our work comes from repeat clients and word-of-mouth referrals, a reflection of programs that are well run, effective, and worth your time. For over 40 years, our clients across corporate, government, and nonprofit sectors have trusted us because our events keep people engaged, break down barriers, and make meetings fun.
Planning a meeting or offsite in Washington, D.C. or nearby? Send us your date, group size, and general info, and we’ll send pricing, availability, and recommended programs.
All events are priced per person with no hidden fees. Pricing varies based on our schedule, groups size, the program and more. Tell us about your team and we'll send over information!
We recommend booking at least 1 month out. Have a last-minute event? Contact us for availability, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Of course. Just let us know and we will not publicize. Our facilitators are accustomed to working in professional environments where discretion and privacy matter.
Absolutely. We fill the time you have. Let us know your meeting constraints and we'll send over some ideas.
Yes. We work with teams at every professional level, activities are designed to be inclusive, professional, and effective across roles.Tell us about your team, we’ll plan with your group in mind.
