{"id":999578,"date":"2026-03-27T07:58:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999578"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:38:53","slug":"tom-brady-backed-telehealth-firm-emed-valued-at-over-2-billion-in-latest-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/tom-brady-backed-telehealth-firm-emed-valued-at-over-2-billion-in-latest-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady-backed telehealth firm eMed valued at over $2 billion in latest funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telehealth firm eMed said on Thursday it has raised $200 million in its latest funding round, valuing the Miami, Florida-based company at more than $2 billion. Backed by seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady, the company partners with employers and government payers \u200cto manage \u2060GLP-1 usage, a \u2060class of obesity and diabetes drugs whose cost burden has been a barrier to wider insurance coverage. Several telehealth platforms are competing for a slice of the booming GLP-1 weight-loss market, widely expected to generate $150 billion in annual sales by next decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telehealth firm eMed said on Thursday it has raised $200 million in its latest funding round, valuing the Miami, Florida-based company at more than $2 billion. Backed by seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady, the company partners with employers and government payers \u200cto manage \u2060GLP-1 usage, a \u2060class of obesity and diabetes drugs whose cost burden has been a barrier to wider insurance coverage. Several telehealth platforms are competing for a slice of the booming GLP-1 weight-loss market, widely expected to generate $150 billion in annual sales by next decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}