Rest® offers a range of products that deliver personal comfort resulting in higher quality rest. By redefining the benchmarks of good rest through constant innovation in form, material and technology, Rest® products are crafted with innovative materials not commonly used in bedding, to deliver a refreshing, transformative sleep experience. Through a direct-to-consumer approach, Rest® offers customers premium products without the luxury price tags. Rest® strives to treat all employees, partners, customers and the planet with respect, creating an overall positive, sustainable impact.
Founding Story
Rest® was established to help consumers get higher quality sleep.
With an increase in stress and well-being issues in modern-day society, science is increasingly reaffirming that one of the key elements that is critical to cope with these lifestyle stressors is a high quality of sleep. However, people cannot get high quality sleep if they are not completely comfortable while sleeping.
Taking the time to speak with hundreds upon hundreds of people, Rest® has found that most individuals neither actively think about the importance of their bedding in regards to getting a good night’s sleep, nor do enough about it.
As a hot sleeper himself, Rest® co-founder Andy Nyguen, struggled with restless sweaty nights. This was made worse by the fact that his wife was a cold sleeper who needed warmth. They were incompatible sleepers sleeping in the same bed. Changing their bedding however, changed everything.
While competitors focus on softness and design, Rest® goes further to analyze the science of heat dissipation, moisture wicking, antimicrobial silver and more to create a customized sleeping comfort that will help individuals get higher quality sleep.
Listening to the consumer is woven into the DNA of the brand. Rest® works tirelessly to create products that will make a difference in customers lives, incorporating direct feedback from the people that know best.
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
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
