Uncovr secures $7 million for AI technology that records surgical procedures.

      Uncovr, a surgical AI startup located in New York and Paris, has secured $7 million in seed funding to transform surgical videos into formal written records. The funding round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Seedcamp, Frst, No Label Ventures, Entrepreneurs First, and angel investors including Jean Nehme, the founder of Digital Surgery; Othman Laraki, CEO of Color Health; and Charlie Songhurst, a board member at Meta.

      Established in 2025 by Ines Iraki, Johann Diep, and Professor Eric Vibert, Uncovr is now emerging from stealth mode, with Iraki serving as the CEO. Diep, who is the chief technology officer, previously worked at the European Space Agency and ETH Zurich.

      The company aims to address a significant but often overlooked issue in hospital documentation. Although many surgeries, particularly robotic and minimally invasive procedures, are filmed, the operative reports are still typically handwritten afterward, frequently taking hours to complete.

      "Millions of minimally invasive, endoscopic, and robotic procedures are performed through camera recording every day, yet the official records are created post-surgery, often hours later and away from the immediate care context," Iraki stated during the funding announcement.

      Uncovr's software analyzes surgical and endoscopic videos in real time, generating the operative reports and suggesting procedural and billing codes before the surgeon exits the operating room. According to the company, a surgeon reviews and approves each output prior to submission.

      This approval is crucial, given that these documents are not low-stakes; the operative report serves as the legal and clinical documentation of a surgery, and the attached codes influence hospital reimbursements. Uncovr claims that initial deployments have revealed reimbursement gaps that standard reviews missed, although it has not published supporting data.

      This funding round positions Uncovr in a rapidly growing sector. Index Ventures also leads Parallel, a Paris-based startup focused on automating hospital medical coding, while investors are increasingly supporting initiatives to leverage AI in surgical video analysis and automate clinical documentation. The investment trend is moving toward improving documentation in healthcare rather than altering procedures themselves.

      Uncovr states that it is collaborating with hospitals across the United States and Europe, has analyzed thousands of hours of surgical procedures, and currently has a pipeline of over 400 operating rooms. These statistics are presented by the company. The seed funding will be allocated toward product development, expanding hospital deployments, and enhancing its models.

      The greater challenge lies in gaining trust. Operative notes and billing codes are closely linked to patient safety, liability, and reimbursement, areas that are scrutinized by regulators and hospital legal teams. The key question is whether these entities will accept AI-generated records at scale, even with a surgeon's signature. This is what the current funding round is wagering on.