Venture Up

Before there was the Escape Case, there was only Venture Up . Venture Up was founded in 1983 by David and Teresa Lengyel as a mountain guiding company in Europe. Originally, it was stationed in the Alps, where they guided clients to the tops of big icy mountains, such as Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. As time moved on, they moved their business bac... k to America. Venture Up became an adventure getaway company, offering extreme skiing, mountaineering, and caving across three continents. In 1988, with the developing corporate demand of experiential training, Venture Up shifted to ropes courses until its full focus fixated on team building. By the early 90s, Venture Up would revolutionize the team building industry in both efficiency and effectiveness. They offered experiential high and low ropes programs that could suit hundreds of people at a time, across the USA, accomplishing the same level of training in just a few hours, that would otherwise have taken days by other methods. Efficiency, has since become one of the core strengths of Venture Up, and its shift to the Escape Case idolizes that. The idea of an Escape Case was conceptualized in 2015, with the initial systems ready for testing almost 16 months later. The idea was simple, capture the fun cooperative experience of an escape room, and put into a series of locked boxes, so that it can be geared for very large conference groups. Create a collaborative experience across teams that fits a 2 hour program window but simpler said than done. The complexity of integrated clues, and hi-tech challenges marked a generational change at Venture Up. The elaborate themes, coupled with cutting edge technology in terms of social media, alarms, codes, ciphers and a wide variety of locking systems, were driven by team members in their 20s. Once again, Venture Up met the demand for efficient, fun, and effective team building, launching a new generation of corporate gamification. Today, each Escape the Case program features a specified theme. Some are geared for the ...Read More