Venture may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

The Ventures The Ventures are an American instrumental rock band formed in Tacoma, Washington, in 1958, by Don Wilson (musician), Don Wilson and Bob Bogle. The band, which was a quartet for most of its existence, helped to popularize the electric guitar acro ...

, an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958 *"A Venture", 1971 song by the band

Yes Yes or YES may refer to: * An affirmative particle in the English language; see yes and no Education * YES Prep Public Schools, Houston, Texas, US * Young Eisner Scholars, in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, and Appalachia, US * Young Ep ...

*''Venture'', a 2010 EP by

AJR is an American pop band founded by brothers Met (), collectively a trio of vocalists, , and songwriters. The brothers grew up in New York City, primarily focused on busking, singing covers and street tap dancing until shifting to songwriting ...

Games

* ''Venture'' (video game), a 1981 arcade game *''Venture'', a strategic card game by

Sid Sackson Sid Sackson (February 4, 1920 in Chicago – November 6, 2002) was an American board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business game ''Acquire''. Career Sackson's most popular creation is probably the business game '' ...

* Venture (''Overwatch''), a playable character from the video game ''

Overwatch 2 ''Overwatch 2'' is a 2023 first-person shooter video game by Blizzard Entertainment. As a sequel and replacement to the 2016 hero shooter ''Overwatch'', the game included new gamemodes and a reduction in team size from six to five. The game is ...

Film

* SS ''Venture'', a ship in ''King Kong'' and its 2005 remake * SS ''Venture'', an InGen-owned ship featured in '' The Lost World: Jurassic Park''

Other uses

* ''Venture'' (TV series), a Canadian business television show

Magazines

* ''

Venture Science Fiction ''Venture Science Fiction'' was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, first published from 1957 to 1958, and revived for a brief run in 1969 and 1970. Ten issues were published of the 1950s version, with another six in the second r ...

'', defunct US science fiction magazine * ''Venture'' (magazine), a management magazine

Business

Business venture Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to start-up company, startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in ...

Venture (department store) Venture was a chain of Discount store, discount Department store, department stores that operated in Australia between 1970 and 1994. Unrelated to the defunct North American chain of the same name (see Venture Stores), Venture is best rememb ...

, a defunct discount department store operating across Australia *

Venture Stores Venture Stores, Inc., was a chain of retail stores aimed at the discount department-store market. John Geisse, formerly of Target Stores, and May Department Stores' executive vice president, Dave Babcock, founded the chain in 1968. Venture Store ...

, a former retail chain

Transportation

Chevrolet Venture The Chevrolet Venture is a minivan produced by General Motors for the 1997 to 2005 model years. The Chevrolet Venture, along with most of its General Motors minivan siblings, was built at GM's Doraville, Georgia, assembly plant. Use of name T ...

, a General Motors minivan *

Yamaha Venture The Yamaha Venture was a premier touring motorcycle A touring motorcycle is a type of motorcycle designed for Motorcycle touring, touring. Although almost any motorcycle can be used for this purpose, manufacturers have developed specific models d ...

, Yamaha touring motorcycles *

Siemens Venture Siemens Venture is a type of locomotive-hauled passenger railroad car built by Siemens Mobility for the North American market. The cars are derived from the Siemens Viaggio Comfort cars used in Europe, with adaptations for North American operat ...

, family of railroad passenger cars * Venture, a series of sailing yachts produced by

MacGregor Yacht Corporation The MacGregor Yacht Corporation was a manufacturer of sailboat, sailing yachts, located in Costa Mesa, California. History MacGregor Yacht Co. was founded by Roger MacGregor as part of a Stanford University MBA class project in the early 1960s. ...

Other uses

Venture Scout Venturer or Venture Scouts are programs in some Scouting organisations for young people of various age ranges in the 14–20 age range. A participant in the program is called a Venturer. Australia The Venturer Scout program in Scouts Australia, ...

, a section of the Scout Movement, mostly in countries of the Commonwealth of Nations * VENTURE NOTC, the Canadian Naval Officer Training Centre based in

CFB Esquimalt Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt (CFB Esquimalt) is the Royal Canadian Navy's Pacific Coast naval base and home port to Maritime Forces Pacific and Joint Task Force Pacific Headquarters. , 4,411 military personnel and 2,762 civilians ...

, British Columbia *Definition: an undertaking involving chance, risk, or danger. {{disambig