Uncovr secures $7M for AI-powered surgical documentation

Uncovr, a surgical AI startup operating out of New York and Paris, has secured $7 million in seed funding to transform live surgical video into the official written record of an operation. The financing round was led by Index Ventures.

Additional participants included Seedcamp, Frst, No Label Ventures, and Entrepreneurs First. Prominent angel investors also contributed, such as Digital Surgery founder Jean Nehme, Color Health CEO Othman Laraki, and Meta board member Charlie Songhurst.

Founded in 2025 by Ines Iraki, Johann Diep, and surgeon Professor Eric Vibert, Uncovr is now emerging from stealth mode. Iraki serves as chief executive. Diep, the chief technology officer, previously worked at the European Space Agency and ETH Zurich.

The company is targeting a routine but high-impact gap in hospital documentation. Many surgeries are now recorded on camera, particularly in robotic and minimally invasive procedures, yet the operative report is still written by hand afterward, often hours later.

“Millions of minimally invasive, endoscopic, and robotic procedures are performed through a camera every day, yet the official record is still created afterward, often hours later and outside the flow of care,” Iraki said in announcing the funding.

Uncovr’s software analyzes surgical and endoscopic video in real time. It drafts the operative report and suggests procedural and billing codes before the surgeon leaves the operating room. The company emphasizes that a surgeon reviews and approves every output before it is submitted.

That sign-off is critical, as these are not low-stakes documents. The operative report serves as both the legal and clinical record of a surgery, and the codes attached to it determine hospital reimbursement. Uncovr says early deployments have uncovered reimbursement gaps that conventional review missed, though it has not yet published data to support this claim.

This round places Uncovr in a rapidly expanding space. Index Ventures also leads Parallel, a Paris startup automating hospital medical coding, and investors have backed efforts to train AI on surgical video and to automate clinical documentation. The money is flowing into the paperwork around care, not the procedure itself.

Uncovr reports it is working with hospitals in the United States and Europe, has analyzed thousands of hours of procedures, and has a pipeline of more than 400 operating rooms. These figures are company-stated. The seed capital will fund product development, additional hospital deployments, and further refinement of its models.

The harder test is trust. Operative notes and billing codes sit close to patient safety, liability, and reimbursement, the parts of healthcare that regulators and hospital lawyers watch most closely. Whether they will accept AI-drafted records at scale, even with a surgeon’s signature on top, is the question this round is betting on.