Surgical artificial intelligence company Uncovr secured $7 million in seed funding for its platform that analyzes surgical videos to automatically generate procedural coding and clinical documentation.
Index Ventures led the startup's seed round, with Seedcamp, Frst, No Labels Ventures and Entrepreneurs First also backing the round. Digitial Surgery Founder Jean Nehme, Color Health CEO Othman Laraki and Meta Board Member Charlie Songhurst, as well as a group of surgeons and operators, also contributed to the round.
Launched in 2025 by Ines Iraki, Johann Diep and Eric Vibert, M.D., Ph.D., Uncovr automatically generates procedural coding and operative reports directly from surgical video and intraoperative workflow data.
“Ines, Eric and Johann have done something rare: earned adoption inside one of healthcare’s hardest environments and moved incredibly fast once inside,” said Martin Mignot, Index Ventures partner, in a statement. “By structuring what happens in the OR, Uncovr is building a highly valuable dataset for surgical AI.”
The company says it is working with leading hospitals across the U.S. and Europe, representing more than 400 operating rooms.
“Unlike ambient scribing companies that require surgeons to dictate their notes outside the flow of care, we focus on capturing the ground truth—surgical videos,” Iraki told Fierce Healthcare in an emailed statement. “This approach ensures the most comprehensive notes and the highest level of coding accuracy.”
"A third" of Uncovr’s team is made up of surgeons, according to Iraki, which "guarantees the company’s solutions is validated and integrates seamlessly into their workflow before being coded."
Alongside the funding announcement, the startup published findings from a real-world analysis of deployed cases which found missed billable steps in 16% of procedures and an approximate 10% reimbursement gap—which it says is driven by documentation gaps not detected by human review.
Iraki said the funding will help recruit “top-tier ML engineers and forward-deployed engineers,” adding that the company plans to expand across multiple facilities.
“Currently, we have offices in New York and Paris, and our team includes talent from Mayo Clinic, Nabla, Polytechnique, ETH Zurich, and more,” Iraki said.