Aleppo · 2026

RISEHUB

A campus that gives Syria's builders the one thing they've never had — the infrastructure to build.

An initiative owned and operated by Raizer

The Innovation Gap

Aleppo has talent and Aleppo has problems. There is nothing in between them.

The Talent Exists

Graduates, developers, engineers and designers with a high capacity to teach themselves. The energy is here — it just isn't pointed at anything that gets built.

What's Missing

An innovation zone. Where young people learn to solve real problems through innovation — and earn value from what they solve.

The Result

The talent exists and the problems exist, but nothing connects them. Skill gets exported or wasted instead of built here.

The Old Model Doesn't Survive

Weak infrastructure and inflation have made the traditional business model structurally unviable. Recovery doesn't come from restarting what broke — it comes from a shift to innovation-led growth.

Talent With No Floor to Stand On

The talent is already here. What's missing is the base layer — stable power, real bandwidth, a desk, a legal entity, a room where the work can actually happen.

Why Now

The Window

Every reconstruction economy has a moment where the rules are still being written.

Whoever builds the ecosystem's infrastructure in that moment sets the standard everyone else operates inside for the next decade. That moment is open now, and it does not stay open.

The Campus

One building. Everything a venture needs between an idea and a shipped product.

Coworking Floor

Desks, 24/7 power, high-speed connectivity. The default working surface of the building.

Training Hall

Tiered hall for programs, workshops, cohorts and partner-run training.

Media Studio

Recording and production room — every venture in the building leaves with a story on camera.

The Fab Lab

The hardware room. Where a digital design becomes something you can hold.

Legal & Entity Support

US LLCs and Syrian legal entities — so a team inside the building can invoice a client outside the country on day one.

Meeting & Event Space

Meeting rooms plus an outdoor area for events — the campus works as a venue, not just an office.

One room inside the campus

The Fab Lab

Software ends at a screen. The Fab Lab is where it stops being a screen.

A shared fabrication room — 3D printing, CNC, resin and electronics work — sitting inside a software-first campus. It's what lets a team prototype a physical product, a machine part, a device housing or a repair for a factory line without leaving the building or leaving the country.

  • Rapid prototyping — an idea becomes a physical object in days, not months of imported samples.
  • Industrial repair & parts — the direct bridge to factories, where sanctions and supply chains have made a single missing part a shutdown.
  • Hardware literacy — the skill base Syria's reconstruction actually needs, taught by using the machines.
Why it's one room, not the building

The Fab Lab is the only capital-heavy part of the campus. That is exactly why it belongs to everyone.

A software venture needs a desk, a chair and bandwidth. That's the whole requirement — which is why the rest of the campus scales at near-zero cost per additional builder.

Hardware is the opposite: machines, ventilation, maintenance, consumables, trained operators. A single team could never justify that cost alone — and this is precisely why no one in Aleppo has one.

Put it in a shared campus and the equation inverts. One room, one setup, amortized across every venture, every cohort and every factory contract that passes through the building. Individually unaffordable; collectively obvious.

Ownership & operations

Who Owns and Runs It

Raizer owns the Fab Lab and Raizer runs it. Not a shared-management space, not equipment without an owner.

Asset Ownership

Every machine in the room is a Raizer-owned asset. Responsibility for purchase, replacement and insurance sits in one place.

Full-Time Lab Manager

One staff member accountable for the room: operation, machine training, quality control and the maintenance schedule.

Safety & Induction

No one touches a machine before passing an induction. Ventilation and fume extraction, protective equipment, and a written protocol per device.

Booking System

Machine time is booked in advance and every session is logged. No queues, and no machine down without a known cause.

Maintenance & Consumables

A scheduled maintenance cycle and a consumables stock managed by Raizer. The user never carries the burden of keeping the room alive.

Training Curriculum

The room teaches, it isn't just rented: a path from digital design to a fabricated part, run as cohorts inside the campus programs.

Ownership structure: Raizer owns and operates RiseHub, owns the Fab Lab assets, and holds the equity positions in ventures built inside it. Partners contribute programs, sponsorship or space — not ownership.

Why This Model Is Cheap to Build

RiseHub is software-first by design. That decision is what makes it buildable here, now.

Coworking floor
Tables, chairs, connectivity
Training hall
Seating, screens, boards
Media studio
Camera, lighting, acoustics
Power & connectivity
Solar, battery bank, satellite uplink
Fab Lab
Fabrication machines — the single heavy line

Near-zero marginal seat

Adding one more builder to the campus costs a desk and a chair. Growth doesn't require new capital.

No inventory, no stock

Software ventures carry nothing. No warehouse, no supply chain, no goods sitting still.

One shared heavy asset

Concentrating the capital cost in a single shared room is what makes the whole model work.

What We Don't Charge

Most hubs monetise access. We refuse to — because charging the builder is what kills the building.

No hourly or daily desk rates

Selling hours turns a hub into a café with wifi. It caps the ceiling at how many chairs you own and makes the operator's incentive volume, not outcomes.

No membership or subscription fees

A monthly fee filters for who can pay, not who can build. In this economy that filter removes almost everyone worth having in the room.

Nothing from students

Students and early innovators use the campus, the Fab Lab and the programs at no cost. They are the pipeline, not the revenue.

Nothing from the innovator

No fee for the desk, the machines, the mentorship or the legal setup. The innovator brings the work — that is the contribution.

We don't charge for access. We take a share of what gets built.

How It Sustains Itself

Two types of people walk into the building. They pay in completely different currencies.

TYPE ONE

Organisations & Programs

Institutions, NGOs, chambers, universities and youth organisations that need a professional venue for their programs, trainings, cohorts and events — and today rent one at commercial rates.

They use the halls and the campus for scheduled programs. They have budgets allocated for exactly this.

Covers the building's operating costs. The campus becomes self-sustaining.
TYPE TWO

Innovators & Builders

Teams building products and solutions. They get the campus, the Fab Lab, the studio, the legal entity and the network — free.

In return the hub holds equity and a revenue share in what they build. When an investor acquires the product, our stake is acquired with it.

Builds the upside. One exit funds a decade of the building.

Third stream — solved problems

When the hub delivers a working solution to a factory or company, that client pays for the solution and the hub takes its share. We never charge the person solving the problem — we charge the business whose problem was solved.

Fourth stream — brand partners

Named zones inside the campus carry brand partners with real footfall, real programming and daily content. Aleppo consumer brands have already signalled interest in taking space.

Why a builder agrees to the equity

Because what they get is not a desk. It's a problem with a buyer already attached, machines they could never buy, a legal entity that lets them invoice, a team building alongside them, and distribution for their story. The equity buys access to revenue, not a seat.

The engine underneath

The Problem Bank

Every factory, clinic and company we've walked into has the same shape of problem. Nobody has ever written them down in one place.

We publish them. A public, open board of real, diagnosed, named operational problems across the Syrian economy — with the context, the constraint and what a solution would be worth.

Anyone can take one. Builders inside the campus get first access, tooling and support. The board turns "I want to start something" into "here are 200 real problems with a buyer waiting at the end."

Sourced

Problems collected directly from operators on-site, not from surveys.

Public

Open to anyone, anywhere. No gate, no login, no fee.

Priced

Each problem carries a real buyer, so solutions have revenue on day one.

Tracked

Solved problems become case studies, and case studies bring the next client.

The Scale

One campus, then the model repeated. These are the year-one numbers.

Campus capacity
1,000m²
Campus footprint
60
Coworking desks
80
Training hall seats
8
Fab Lab workstations
Year one targets
20
Ventures in residence
500
Young people trained
10
Company contracts delivered
100
Problems published

24 partner programs a year

Two per month from organisations, universities and chambers — this is what covers operations.

Two cohorts a year

Ten ventures each, six months per cohort, overlapping inside the campus.

Year three

Three campuses (Aleppo, Latakia, Damascus), 100+ ventures, 50+ equity positions held.

The Risks & How We Solve Them

Every obstacle in this market is known in advance. Each one has a solution designed into the building.

Risk · Electricity

Solar array & battery bank

The campus runs independent of the grid. Solar generation and battery storage keep desks, machines and servers running 24/7 regardless of rationing.

Risk · Internet

Starlink with local failover

A primary Starlink uplink with a local provider as failover. Enough bandwidth to deliver to international clients without depending on terrestrial infrastructure.

Risk · Payments

A US entity for USD invoicing

Raizer operates a Wyoming-registered company. Teams inside the campus invoice and get paid in USD through a legal entity, instead of working around the constraint.

Risk · Brain drain

Ownership and income, here

People leave when there is no ceiling. Equity, real contracts and USD income from inside Aleppo make staying an economic decision, not a sentimental one.

Risk · Demand

Contracts before opening

The campus doesn't open and then look for demand. First contracts are signed through Raizer and the Problem Bank is published before the doors open.

Risk · Equipment

Owned, with clear accountability

Fab Lab machines are Raizer-owned assets with a lab manager, a maintenance cycle and a parts stock. No donated equipment with nobody accountable for it.

Who is behind this

Razek Daoud

Razek Daoud

CEO of Raizer. Six years building technology companies from inside Aleppo — not after leaving it.

  • Raizer — founded 2020. Around 100 B2B clients over the years, and a team that reached 35+ people at its peak.
  • Sylicon Summit 2025 — Syria's first tech expo after liberation, under the patronage of the Governor of Aleppo, covered by SANA, Al-Ikhbariya and Turkey's Kent Haber.
  • Script Summit 2025 · Sy Bubble · Arise — a run of tech summits and conferences, attended by the Ministry of Information and bank-sponsored.
  • JCI Beroea — Local President 2026. Founding assembly 31 January 2026, 39 members with 19 active across 6 project teams.
  • #1 LinkedIn voice in Syria — roughly 756,000 impressions across four months, averaging 12,000 per post.
The operator

Built and Run by Raizer

Raizer builds AI operating systems for companies. Founded in Aleppo, building for the region.

Raizer installs systems that let mid-sized companies automate their core workflows and scale without scaling their costs — diagnosed in a capacity audit, built and deployed, handed over to the client's own team, and measured in dollars.

That is the same engine RiseHub runs on: find the operational problem, build the system that removes it, prove the result. RiseHub is that capability turned outward — applied to an entire economy instead of one company at a time.

Raizer is not a sponsor of RiseHub. Raizer is the owner and the operator.

Diagnose

A capacity audit mapping where a business leaks hours and money.

Build & Deploy

Automation shipped against the highest-return targets.

Hand Over

The client's own team is trained to own and run the system.

Scoreboard

Results measured in dollars, with a roadmap for what comes next.

Go-to-Market Strategy

Demand first, building second. The campus opens into a market that already exists.

Phase 01 · Prove Demand

Contracts Before Concrete

Sign the first factory and company contracts through Raizer before the campus opens. Publish the Problem Bank and let it fill. Run the first cohort inside partner venues. The hub opens with revenue and a waiting list, not with a ribbon.

Phase 02 · Open & Amplify

The Journey, Filmed

Open the campus and document everything daily — the build-out, the cohorts, the products shipping. The media studio makes the hub its own distribution channel. Anchor programs move in, brand partners take their zones.

Phase 03 · Scale the Model

Aleppo, Then the Map

Aleppo becomes the proven template. Replicate to Latakia for logistics and trade, Damascus for finance and government. The equity portfolio compounds while the campus model repeats.

Channel: existing relationships

Raizer's B2B pipeline supplies the first contracts. No cold start.

Channel: content

A founder audience already at national scale gives the hub reach from day one.

Channel: institutions

Youth organisations and chambers bring programs, cohorts and legitimacy.

How We Start

The concept is decided. This is the execution sequence to a live building.

STEP 01

Real Estate Research

Survey candidate properties across the three directions — Arab house, Shahba villa, central tower floor. Shortlist on size, condition, access, power and terms.

STEP 02

Site Assessment

Walk the shortlist with an engineer. Assess structure, electrical load, ventilation for the Fab Lab, and what renovation each site requires.

STEP 03

Floor Plan

The first deliverable once the place is chosen: lay out the space against the fixed requirement — coworking, training hall, studio, meeting rooms, Fab Lab, outdoor area.

STEP 04

3D Renders

Produce photoreal renders of the finished campus. Nothing moves a partner, a landlord or a program director like seeing the room before it exists.

STEP 05

Operators & Suppliers

Contact fit-out contractors, solar installers, connectivity providers and fabrication equipment suppliers. Lock scope, lead times and installation sequence.

STEP 06

Anchor Commitments

Secure the first program partners and brand zones on paper before signing the lease, so the operating base is committed the day the doors open.

Sequence matters: renders and anchor commitments come before the lease. We prove the room is wanted before we pay for the room.

The next step

Let's Talk About Your Part In It

Whether you're an institution looking for a home for your programs, a brand that wants a zone inside the campus, or a partner who wants to build this with us — it starts with the same conversation.

Book a call

30-minute intro call · raizer.tech/book

razek@raizer.tech
raizer.tech
linkedin.com/in/razekdaoud
Aleppo, Syria
01 / 17