Rest® is a sleep brand redefining the path to personalized comfort—prioritizing well-being through innovation in form, function, and cooling technology. Since its launch, the brand has focused on creating thoughtfully designed products that enhance the sleep experience without the luxury price tag. Known for its Evercool® collection, Rest® offers a range of science-backed products—including premium bedding and, most recently, the newly launched Evercool® Cooling Pajamas—all designed to support temperature regulation and all-night comfort. The brand’s standout products have received widespread recognition, including Good Housekeeping’s Best Bedding Awards for the Evercool® Cooling Comforter for the past three years, Apartment Therapy’s 2023 Best List Awards and the 2025 Health Sleep Awards for the Evercool®+ Cooling Sheet Set in the Best Cooling Sheets category, and a 2025 Oprah Daily Sleep O-Wards for the Evercool® Cooling Pillow. To learn more, please visit www.rest.com.
Founding Story
Our world has been going through unprecedented times leading to stress and well-being issues. Science is increasingly showing the importance of high quality of sleep in coping with stress. But people cannot get high quality sleep if they are not completely comfortable when they sleep. Everyone needs a certain level of customized comfort to get into their own ‘comfort zone’.
Talking to hundreds upon hundreds of people, we’ve realized most people neither actively think about the importance of their bedding nor do enough about it. As a hot sleeper myself, I struggled with restless sweaty nights. This was made worse by the fact that my wife is a cold sleeper who needed warmth while I needed coolness. We were incompatible sleepers sleeping in the same bed. Upgrading our bedding and comfort however, changed everything - perhaps even saving our marriage.
At Rest our purpose is to ensure everyone gets a good rest, and we do everything we can to accomplish it. While competitors focus on softness and design, we go further to analyze the science of heat dissipation, moisture wicking, antimicrobial silver, and more to create a customized sleeping comfort that will help you get higher quality sleep.
Andy Nguyen, Co-Founder of MTC Global and Co-Founder and CEO of Rest®, has combined his vast professional business experience as well as deep understanding of the North American consumer to help manufacturers create new online brands for the North American market and beyond.
Born in Hong Kong, Nguyen moved to Vancouver, Canada at an early age. He received his Bachelors of Commerce from the University of British Columbia specializing in marketing, logistics and accounting. In 2014 Nguyen moved back to China to experience the incredible growth of the Chinese economy. He has held various positions at large companies including PwC, and co-founded his first company Halloween Craze early on in his career. For six years in Shanghai, he worked in the digital marketing industry helping international brands such as Costa Coffee, LEGO, and HK Disneyland expand their digital footprint in China. He also worked with Chinese brands like Ecovacs to enter international markets.
Through Co-Founding MTC and various brands like Rest®, he aims to bring consumers and manufacturers close together to create more robust and consumer-centric products faster and more efficiently.
Nguyen lives in Shanghai, China with his family and enjoys cooking, running, traveling and staying on top of the political economy and his favorite North American sports teams. He also appreciates a good DIY project and an entertaining comic.
A serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of management experience, Co-Founder of MTC Global and Rest® Yong Zhou has successfully introduced dozens of international businesses and teams from across the world to China by helping them localize their business for the Chinese market. With the firm belief that digital transformation is the future of manufacturing and recognizing a trend of the globalization of Chinese enterprises, Zhou continues to utilize his international management experience, working closely with top manufacturers to help them build brands for overseas markets.
Graduating from the University of Birmingham with an undergraduate degree and an MBA, Zhou utilized his entrepreneurial skills to found his first company. Eventually acquired by American education group, KAPLAN, he then received tens of millions in investment from a leading venture capital institution for his next venture.
Zhou’s mission is to use digital means to transform traditional manufacturers and help connect them with consumers to better understand and quickly respond to their needs. He aims to continue bringing positive changes to stagnant industries and build modern solutions empowered by new science and technology advancements for current demands.
Zhou grew up in Shanghai and currently resides in Hangzhou, China. When not helping to build brands he enjoys time traveling with his family.
If you're willing to invest in a blanket you'll be able to use all year long, the best cooling blanket is the Rest Evercool Cooling Comforter.
Hannah Baker
Better Homes & Garden, Editor
The Cooling Comforter from Rest aced our moisture wicking evaluations in Lab and analysts appreciated its very thin, lightweight feel.
Emma Seymour
Good Housekeeping, Sr. Product Analyst
The material is silky smooth and soft, with ultra thin fibers that wick away sweat and moisture while having an impressive cool-to-the-touch feel!
Jessica Timmons
Healthline, Author
“I finally look forward to going to bed again! The Rest comforter and sheets are exceptionally soft and magnificently cool.”
Claire Gill
Founder, National Menopause Foundation
Menopausal women have a reduced thermoneutral zone so that small temperature elevations will trigger hot flashes. When women experience hot flashes at night, it is usually because heat accumulates under their blanket. The Evercool Cooling Technology helps to prevent your body heat from rising and rather helps to keep a constant skin temperature. When the skin feels cool and heat is not accumulated, the core body temperature keeps constant too.
Patricia Yang
Menopause Health Researcher, Yale School of Public Health
"It's not only important to keep your room cool for an optimal sleep environment, but your bedding also plays a significant role in how well you sleep at night. Rest Evercool Cooling products have the unique ability to regulate your body temperature during sleep, while also feeling soft and luxurious to the touch."
Whitney Roban
Ph.D. Sleep Expert, Author, and Founder of Solve Our Sleep
