Manta Sleep

What does Manta Sleep own?

The company owns the Manta Sleep brand and its product line of sleep masks, audio masks, earplugs, and accessories. It has no subsidiaries or secondary brands.

Is Manta Sleep publicly traded?

No. Manta Sleep is privately held and founder-controlled. It has never raised institutional venture capital and is not listed on any exchange.

Who founded Manta Sleep?

Mark Zhang founded the company with an industrial designer partner named Ben. Zhang, a former accountant, serves as CEO.

Where is Manta Sleep headquartered?

The company is headquartered in Jackson, Wyoming, United States, with an operational presence in Taiwan near its contract manufacturers.

How many brands does Manta Sleep own?

One. Manta Sleep is a single-brand company focused exclusively on sleep accessories.

Who owns Manta Sleep?

Founder Mark Zhang controls the company. Because launch capital came from product crowdfunding rather than equity investment, no outside investors hold disclosed stakes.

How was Manta Sleep funded?

Through crowdfunding. The 2016 Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns raised more than $700,000 in product pre-orders, allowing the company to launch without venture capital.

Mark Zhang started the company after a personal pivot. A University of British Columbia graduate working in accounting and e-commerce, Zhang changed direction after the death of a close friend in his twenties pushed him to leave the corporate track. A lifelong light sleeper, he had spent years frustrated by sleep masks that leaked light, pressed on his eyes, or fell apart within months.

Zhang partnered with Ben, an industrial designer, to develop a different approach: a modular mask with adjustable, contoured eye cups that could seal out light without touching the eyelids. The design allowed customization for face shape and sleeping position, including side sleeping, which conventional masks handled poorly.

The founders launched on Kickstarter and Indiegogo in 2016, raising more than $700,000 combined. Zhang had prior crowdfunding experience, and the campaign's success gave the business both capital and an early community. Operations began from Jackson, Wyoming, in 2017 as a Shopify-native brand.

Growth came through a marketing playbook common to successful Shopify brands of the period: paid social advertising directed at editorial-style listicle landing pages that sold the product's functional benefits. Monthly revenue grew from roughly $10,000 to more than $700,000, according to Zhang's account in a 2021 interview, and the customer base passed 300,000 that year.

Product expansion stayed disciplined around sleep. The Manta PRO addressed side sleepers, the Manta SOUND added Bluetooth audio for masking noise, and silk, cooling, and travel variants broadened the range alongside earplugs and body pillows. In 2025 the Manta SOUND Sleep Mask was named to TIME's Best Inventions list. As of October 2026 the company remains independent and founder-led.

Manta Sleep holds no independently verified sustainability certifications. The company is not B Corp certified and does not hold environmental or fair-trade accreditations in independent databases. Its products are textile and electronic accessories rather than regulated cosmetics or food, so cruelty-free and similar certifications do not apply.

The small-scale outsourced manufacturing model means most environmental performance sits with contract factories in Taiwan and China, which the company does not publicly audit or certify through third-party frameworks.

• TIME Best Inventions of 2025: Manta SOUND Sleep Mask, the company's flagship audio mask, was selected for TIME's annual list
• Crowdfunding milestone: More than $700,000 raised across Kickstarter and Indiegogo at launch in 2016
• Customer scale: The brand reports more than two million customers served