Venture

Venture may refer to:

Automobiles

• Chevrolet Venture, a General Motors Corporation minivan

Business

• Joint venture, a strategic alliance between two or more parties to undertake economic activity together
• Venture (department store), a defunct discount department store operating across Australia
• Venture capital, general term for financing startup, early-stage, and "turnaround"-type businesses
• Venture management, a business management discipline
• Venture Corporation, a Singapore firm
• Venture philanthropy, an approach that attempts to make philanthropy more effective
• Venture Stores, a former chain of retail stores headquartered in O'Fallon, Missouri
• Venture (magazine), a management magazine
• VentureSoft, a consulting corporation
• Nu-Venture, a bus operator in Kent, England

Entertainment

• The Ventures, instrumental band
• Venture (video game)
• Venture (TV series), a Canadian business television show on the CBC network
• Venture Science Fiction, a US science fiction magazine published in 1957–1958 and revived in 1969–1970
• The Venture Bros., a US animated television series airing as part of Adult Swim on Cartoon Network
• "A Venture", a song by the U.K progressive rock group Yes from their 1971 release The Yes Album
• Errant Venture, an Imperial Star Destroyer in the Star Wars universe
• USS Venture, a Galaxy class starship in the Star Trek universe
• SS Venture, a ship registered in Surabaya, chartered by film director Carl Denham to travel to Skull Island in King Kong (1933 film) and its 2005 remake, King Kong (2005 film)
• SS Venture, an InGen-owned ship featured in The Lost World: Jurassic Park
• Venture, a strategic card game by Sid Sackson

Scouting

• Venture Scout, a section of the Scout Movement, mostly in countries of the Commonwealth of Nations
• Venture Scouts (Scouting Ireland), a program for youth aged between 15 and a half and 21 years of age
• Venturer Scouts (Australia), the fourth section of Scouts Australia
• Venturing (Boy Scouts of America), a membership division of the Boy Scouts of America
• Australian Venture, a Jamboree-style event held for Venturers in Australia every three years
• Venture patrol, a program in Boy Scouting (Boy Scouts of America)

Motorcycles

• Yamaha Venture, two touring motorcycles manufactured by Yamaha
  • Yamaha Venture Royale, a touring motorcycle manufactured by Yamaha from 1983 to 1993
  • Yamaha Royal Star Venture, a touring motorcycle manufactured by Yamaha from 1999 to the present

Places

• VENTURE NOTC, the Canadian Naval Officer Training Centre based in CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia