{"id":291646,"date":"2026-02-19T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/291646\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:20:08","slug":"eucalyptus-sells-to-new-york-listed-healthcare-giant-hims-hers-in-1-6b-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/291646\/","title":{"rendered":"Eucalyptus sells to New York-listed healthcare giant Hims &#038; Hers in $1.6b deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eucalyptus, the weight loss start-up that has become one of the country\u2019s biggest health companies, is being sold to New York-listed obesity drugs giant Hims &amp; Hers Health for more than $1.6 billion, in a major payday for its 35-year-old co-founder and venture funds.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco-based Hims &amp; Hers said late on Thursday that it would acquire the seven-year-old Australian company, which runs popular weight-loss brands Pilot and Juniper as well as a fertility service known as Kin, in an all-cash deal that would turn Eucalyptus into its international division.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eucalyptus, the weight loss start-up that has become one of the country\u2019s biggest health companies, is being sold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-291646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}