Uncovr, a surgical AI startup based in New York and Paris, has raised $7M in seed funding to turn the video from an operation into its official written record. The round was led by Index Ventures.
Seedcamp, Frst, No Label Ventures, and Entrepreneurs First also took part, alongside angels including Digital Surgery founder Jean Nehme, Color Health chief executive Othman Laraki, and Meta board member Charlie Songhurst.
Founded in 2025 by Ines Iraki, Johann Diep, and the surgeon Professor Eric Vibert, Uncovr is coming out of stealth. Iraki is chief executive. Diep, the chief technology officer, previously worked at the European Space Agency and ETH Zurich.
The company is going after a routine but consequential gap in hospital paperwork. Many operations are now recorded on camera, especially in robotic and minimally invasive surgery, yet the operative report is still written by hand afterwards, often hours later.
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“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 round.
What Uncovr captures, and who signs it off
Uncovr’s software analyses 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 says a surgeon reviews and approves every output before it is submitted.
That sign-off matters, because these are not low-stakes documents. The operative report is the legal and clinical record of a surgery, and the codes attached to it drive hospital reimbursement. Uncovr says early deployments have surfaced reimbursement gaps that conventional review missed, a claim it has not published data to support.
The round places Uncovr in a fast-filling lane. Index Ventures also leads Parallel, the Paris startup automating hospital medical coding, and investors have backed efforts to teach AI from surgical video and to automate clinical documentation. The money is moving into the paperwork around care, not the procedure itself.
Uncovr says it is working with hospitals in the United States and Europe, has analysed thousands of hours of procedures, and has a pipeline of more than 400 operating rooms. Those figures are company-stated. The seed money will fund product development, more hospital deployments, and further work on 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.
