Shape/About Us

Closing the gap between
education and employment.

Thousands of graduates enter the job market every year without real work experience. Shape was founded in Tunisia to close that gap with project-based learning, industry mentorship and skills employers can verify.

Our mission in three pillars.

🛠️

Build real skills

Programs designed with employers, around the roles they are hiring for.

✅

Verify, don't claim

Skills proven through real, reviewed projects, not exams.

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Open the pathway

Fair access to opportunities, based on demonstrated readiness.

Our story.

2022

Shape is founded

Shape launches with a first pilot cohort of twelve learners in Tunis.

2023

HolonIQ MENA EdTech 50

Named to the HolonIQ MENA EdTech 50 and first funding round with the Oman Technology Fund.

2024

Forbes 30 Under 30

Rahma Ben Abid is named to the Forbes Middle East 30 Under 30 and presents Shape in Morocco and Jordan.

2025

The hard year

A year of rebuilding: new learning process, new platform, new program design.

2026

Back, stronger

Shape relaunches with a stronger platform and a project-based catalog built on real hiring demand.

Three ways to
join Shape.

As a Shaper, a partner or a mentor.