Uncovr Raises $7 Million in Seed Funding to Build the System of Record for Surgery

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• Uncovr, the surgical AI company transforming how surgery is analyzed, documented, coded, and learned, has raised $7 million in seed funding led by Index Ventures.
• Uncovr is already working with leading hospitals in the US and Europe.
• The platform automatically generates operative reports and procedural coding directly from surgical video and intraoperative data, enabling hospitals to catch missed insurance billing and record evidence that can reduce infection, readmission, and reoperation rates.
• The company was founded by a multidisciplinary team, bringing together experts in healthcare operations, AI engineering, and AI-assisted surgery.
• Ultimately, Uncovr is transforming one of the most complex and underutilized datasets in healthcare into a foundation for better care, more accurate systems, and the development of future AI-enabled surgical technologies.

THE DETAILS

More than 400 million surgeries are performed each year globally, with a growing share now captured on video through robotic and minimally invasive techniques. Yet after surgery, the official record of a procedure is still reconstructed manually from memory, by an exhausted surgeon juggling cases, often hours after the event. Despite the report becoming the legal and clinical record of the procedure, the basis for billing, and the reference for future patient care, critical details are frequently lost, and much of the data is unused.

Uncovr addresses this gap by analyzing the only ground truth for procedures: the surgical or endoscopic video captured in real time. Its proprietary models automatically generate complete operative reports and procedural coding suggestions before the surgeon leaves the operating room, with all outputs reviewed and approved prior to submission.

Uncovr is already working with leading hospitals in the US and Europe, with a pipeline of 400 operating rooms and thousands of hours of surgery analyzed. By grounding documentation in what actually happened during the procedure, the platform improves clinical accuracy, reimbursement integrity, compliance, and continuity of care – while creating a structured and searchable procedural record for hospitals to support precision surgery, research and more.

“At Uncovr, we are taking what actually happens in the operating room and turning it into something that can be reliably captured and used,” said Ines Iraki, co-founder and CEO.

“Surgeons should not have to spend their time reconstructing from memory what a camera has already captured and becoming medical coders. The bigger opportunity is what comes after. Every robotic and minimally invasive procedure already generates a rich record of expert decision-making, technique, and judgment. We believe this will become one of the foundational datasets of modern medicine – the basis for how surgical knowledge gets transmitted and applied at scale. Surgery has always been learned by watching. We're making that possible at scale.”

Founded by Ines Iraki, Johann Diep, and Prof. Eric Vibert, Uncovr was shaped by firsthand experience across surgery, autonomous systems, and frontier AI. While working in healthcare, Iraki spent time inside operating rooms and became obsessed with the gap between what surgical systems capture and what hospitals are actually able to use. Vibert, Chief of Surgery at AP-HP, spent years confronting the clinical consequences of incomplete operative reporting, while Diep previously developed AI systems for autonomous environments in defense and at the European Space Agency.

The $7 million funding round is led by Index Ventures, with participation from Seedcamp, Frst, No Label Ventures, Sequoia Scout, and Entrepreneurs First. The round is also supported by Jean Nehme (founder of Digital Surgery, acquired by Medtronic), Othman Laraki (CEO of Color Health), and Charlie Songhurst (Meta board member), as well as a group of surgeons and operators.