Funding will support Saber’s expansion across Asia-Pacific and the Gulf region, including new local licenses and B2B payment products.

San Francisco, USA

Saber Money, a payment infrastructure company enabling financial institutions, fintechs and businesses to move money across key emerging-market corridors, today announced strategic funding from Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer and Hong Kong based CMCC Global’s Titan Fund.

With the new capital, Saber plans to deepen its presence in existing corridors while expanding into additional emerging markets in Asia-Pacific and the Gulf region. A key focus will be securing local licenses and banking relationships that will enable Saber to build deeper payment capabilities and improve settlement economics within each market.

“Emerging markets are where the next chapter of global payments is being written, and stablecoins are the infrastructure that makes it possible. Saber has built real regulatory depth and market access across Asia and the Middle East, and we’re proud to support a team that understands how to translate that into products businesses can actually use. This is exactly the kind of use case where stablecoin settlement changes the economics for everyone involved.”  — Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether.

“Saber Money sits at the convergence of a vast market opportunity and a generational shift in financial infrastructure. Asia is home to some of the world’s largest cross-border payment corridors contributing to about 53% of global remittances. Yet moving money across the region remains costly, fragmented, and reliant on outdated rails. With cross-border B2B stablecoin payments projected to reach $5 trillion by 2035, we believe Saber Money is well positioned to become a category-defining global payments company and a trusted infrastructure layer through which money moves as seamlessly as information” — Shiau Sin Yen Co-founder and Managing Partner of Titan Fund.

Saber currently holds licenses, registrations and authorizations in Canada, EU, India and Australia. The group also operates Mudrex, one of the largest crypto exchanges in India. Over the past nine months, Saber’s payment volumes have grown over 6x, processing billions of dollars across 40+ countries. More than 90% of payments are processed in under one minute, enabling faster and more efficient cross-border transactions.

“Saber gives businesses stablecoin-powered payment rails into markets like the Asia-Pacific and the Gulf region,  bringing near instant, 24/7 and cost-effective settlement infrastructure available in developed markets to the regions driving the next wave of global cross-border volume.” — Edul Patel, CEO, Saber Money. 

The company also plans to expand into B2B payments, where businesses continue to face significant friction when paying suppliers, managing treasury and moving working capital internationally.

Asia-Pacific and the Gulf region sit at the centre of some of the world’s largest and fastest-evolving cross-border payment corridors. Asia already accounts for roughly 35% of global payment flows, while South Asia and East Asia & Pacific together receive more than $1+ trillion annually. The GCC is one of the world’s most important sources of outbound payments; the UAE alone sent approximately AED 188 billion in remittances in 2025.

“As trade, migration and digital commerce expand, these corridors represent a significant opportunity for payment infrastructure that can provide faster settlement, deeper local connectivity and more efficient movement of liquidity across borders. Stablecoins fundamentally change what is possible in cross-border payments,” Patel added.

The investment from Tether and Titan fund marks the next phase of Saber’s ambition to build a payment network connecting emerging-market financial systems with global stablecoin liquidity.

About Saber Money

Saber Money is a payment infrastructure company that enables financial institutions, fintechs and businesses to move money across key global and emerging-market corridors using stablecoin-powered payment infrastructure. The company is backed by tier 1 investors like Y-Combinator, Nexus Ventures, Tether and CMCC Global’s Titan Fund.  Saber supports businesses in sectors such as remittances, payroll, and fintech with easy-to-use APIs, strong compliance systems, and round-the-clock support. Learn more at https://saber.money/

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An unscripted exchange during TikTok Shop LIVE at TM: Times Square showed how Cozyla Agent brings real-time voice interaction into everyday family life.

NEW YORK, NY

Cozyla demonstrated its AI-powered voice assistant, Cozyla Agent, during a TikTok Shop LIVE event at TM’s Times Square flagship, where NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal tested the technology with an impromptu basketball question about NBA championship wins. Cozyla Agent responded in real time, answering that Charles Barkley won zero NBA championships and O’Neal won four.

Cozyla Agent answered in real time: zero for Barkley and four for O’Neal.

The unscripted exchange offered a spontaneous demonstration of Cozyla Agent’s ability to respond to questions in the moment. But its role extends beyond answering trivia. Beyond answering questions, Cozyla Agent brings voice interaction into everyday family tasks, from updating shared calendars and planning routines to coordinating activities and finding nearby restaurants.

O’Neal’s interest extended beyond the livestream. He returned to the Cozyla booth several times during the event and received a 15.6-inch Cozyla Calendar Neo. He also expressed interest in having ten 24-inch Cozyla Calendar Plus 3 for his new home.

The Future of Family Starts Here

For Cozyla, the interaction reflected a broader vision: technology that does more than respond to individual requests; it helps make everyday life easier to organize for the entire household.

Research commissioned by Cozyla and conducted by Drive Research found that 90% of surveyed parents experienced stress related to family life, while approximately 80% said their children were not actively involved in family organization.

Cozyla is developing its Family System to help address these challenges by bringing shared schedules, daily routines, tasks, and voice-powered assistance into a connected ecosystem. At the event, four products demonstrated this approach: Cozyla Calendar Plus 3, Cozyla Calendar Neo, and Cozyla Calendar Plus Go, all powered by Cozyla Agent, and Cozyla Routine, a children’s bedside routine helper powered by Cozyla Pal.

Together, these products are designed to help parents coordinate household responsibilities, give children more opportunities to participate in daily routines, and make family plans easier for everyone to see and follow.

“More than 90% of the creators we work with are moms of multiple children, and their feedback reveals a common challenge: too much of family life depends on constant reminders and coordination,” said Huisi Chen (Emily), Head of Brand Partnerships at Cozyla. “We believe technology should empower the whole family to take part, so families spend less time managing and more time connecting.”

Built for the Realities of Family Life

Keeping a household organized means coordinating school schedules, work commitments, meals, and extracurricular activities. As a father of three, Cozyla VP of Sales Brent Kovalsky knows firsthand how challenging it can be to keep everything organized.

“Between school schedules, activities, and everyday routines, there’s a lot to keep track of with three kids. Cozyla helps us bring everything together in one place, so our family can stay organized and know what’s coming up,” said Kovalsky.

By making family plans easier to see and daily routines easier to follow, Cozyla aims to help parents stay organized while giving children more opportunities to participate and build independence.

Recognition for Innovation in Family Technology

Cozyla’s approach has received recognition from both media and the technology industry. The company has reached more than 130,000 users, and TIME named Cozyla Calendar Plus 2 to its Best Inventions of 2025. Cozyla Routie received a 2026 IFA Innovation Award in the Best in Smart Home category.

Forbes Vetted also published hands-on coverage of Calendar Plus 2 in 2026, examining its family-oriented features, including shared calendars, task management, and meal planning.

About Cozyla

Cozyla is a smart family technology brand focused on bringing clarity to the moving parts of family life. Its connected products combine shared calendars, routines, tasks, and AI-powered voice experiences to help families organize everyday life and make more room for meaningful moments.

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Research platform now tracks COA signals across 138 products while expanding brand, store and mushroom-species resources

LAS VEGAS, NV

ShrooMap, a mushroom product research and comparison platform operated by Real Tested Inc., has expanded its database to 1,022 mushroom products, alongside a growing evidence-tracking system designed to help consumers distinguish documented product information from marketing claims.

The platform now tracks COA or laboratory-documentation signals across 138 products, while also organizing product ingredients, serving information, listed prices, brand records and category data in a searchable format.

The expansion is part of ShrooMap’s broader effort to make mushroom-product research easier to evaluate by showing not only what information is available, but also where evidence is incomplete or requires additional verification.

Making Laboratory Documentation Easier to Evaluate

Certificates of Analysis, commonly known as COAs, are increasingly used by mushroom brands to support product-quality and testing claims.

ShrooMap’s lab and COA evidence resources are designed to provide additional context around those documents rather than treating the presence of a laboratory report as proof of a product’s quality, efficacy or current composition.

The platform encourages users to consider factors such as the date of the laboratory report, the testing laboratory, batch or lot identification, contaminant testing and whether the document actually corresponds to the product being reviewed.

For functional mushroom products, ShrooMap also tracks available information such as beta-glucan or polysaccharide reporting when it is provided.

A laboratory-report link alone does not establish product efficacy or confirm that every current batch matches the tested sample.

More Than Product Listings

ShrooMap has also expanded the research surrounding its product database.

The platform currently includes 260 brand profiles, hundreds of mapped retail locations and 36 mushroom species profiles, allowing users to move between product research, company information and local-store discovery.

Its product comparison tools allow shoppers to review recorded information such as serving size, ingredients, price and available laboratory evidence side by side.

Rather than concealing incomplete records, the platform also identifies missing information and older source material so users can see where additional confirmation may be required.

ShrooMap by the Numbers

1,022
Mushroom products in the database

260
Brand profiles

138
Products with COA or laboratory-documentation signals

36
Mushroom species profiles

Hundreds
Of mapped retail locations

Explore: shroomap.com

Product and laboratory information is provided for research and comparison purposes. Availability and documentation may change.

Separating Recorded Facts From Claims

One of the challenges in the mushroom-product market is that similarly marketed products can differ substantially in ingredients, mushroom species, extract type, serving size and available testing documentation.

ShrooMap’s approach is to separate recorded label and source information from broader marketing or efficacy claims.

Product prices and availability can also change. ShrooMap therefore treats recorded prices as dated observations and encourages users to confirm current pricing, shipping eligibility and product availability directly with the relevant seller.

The same principle applies to laboratory information: a COA associated with a product can provide useful context, but it does not automatically verify a different batch or establish the effects of the product.

Building a Searchable Mushroom Research Layer

The expanded database brings together several parts of the mushroom market that are often researched separately, including functional mushroom supplements, brand profiles, product comparisons, mushroom-species information and local business listings.

Through ShrooMap, users can move from broad product research to side-by-side comparisons and supporting laboratory-documentation resources without relying on a single product listing or marketing claim.

ShrooMap intends the platform to serve as a research layer that helps consumers understand what is documented, what remains uncertain and what should be checked directly with a manufacturer or retailer before purchase.

Users can explore the full platform at shroomap.com, use the product comparison tools or review the lab and COA evidence hub.

About ShrooMap

ShrooMap is a mushroom product research, comparison and directory platform operated by Real Tested Inc. The platform publishes product listings, comparisons, brand profiles, mushroom-species resources and store information while providing context around source quality, product labels and available laboratory documentation.

ShrooMap content is provided for informational and educational purposes. Product availability, laws, shipping rules and restrictions vary by jurisdiction, and users should verify current product and legal information directly with the relevant business before purchase or use.

More information is available at shroomap.com.

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SOURCE: Real Tested Inc.