Surgical AI Startup Uncovr Raises $7M Seed Funding

Jan de Vries · 2026-06-10

### A New Era for Operating Room Data You know that feeling when you walk out of a meeting and can’t remember half of what was said? Now imagine that happening after a surgery. That’s the gap Uncovr is trying to fix. This Paris-based surgical AI company just announced a $7 million Seed round led by Index Ventures, with support from Seedcamp, Frst, No Label Ventures, and Entrepreneurs First. Notable angels like Jean Nehme (Digital Surgery founder, acquired by Medtronic), Othman Laraki (CEO of Color Health), and Charlie Songhurst (Meta board member) also joined in. ### What Uncovr Actually Does Uncovr takes video from the operating room and turns it into structured clinical records. No more relying on memory or scribbled notes. The AI automatically generates operative reports and procedural coding from surgical footage and intraoperative workflow data. This helps hospitals improve documentation quality for patient care, reimbursement accuracy, and surgical workflow visibility. “At Uncovr, we are taking what actually happens in the operating room and turning it into something that can be reliably captured and used,” says 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.” ### Why This Matters for Healthcare Think about it: over 400 million surgeries happen globally each year. A growing share of those are captured on video. Yet most of that footage sits unused. Uncovr believes this data could become one of the foundational datasets of modern medicine. A way to transmit surgical knowledge at scale. Dr. Prakash Gatta, Medical Director of Complex Foregut Surgery at Texas Health Resources and VP of Clinical and Medical Affairs at Uncovr, puts it bluntly: “When we looked at our own cases, we saw clear gaps between what actually happened in the operating room and what was captured in the record and by the codes. That has real implications, not just for reimbursement but also for compliance, coding, clinical security, and continuity.” ### The Team Behind the Tech Founded in 2025 by Ines Iraki (CEO), Johann Diep (CTO), and Prof. Eric Vibert (Medical Co-Founder), Uncovr brings together experience from surgery, autonomous systems, and frontier AI. Iraki spent time inside operating rooms spotting the documentation gap. Vibert, Chief of Surgery at AP-HP, dealt with the consequences of incomplete reporting firsthand. Diep previously built AI systems for defense and the European Space Agency. The team includes engineers, surgeons, and medical coders from ETH Zurich, École Polytechnique, AP-HP, Mayo Clinic, HEC Paris, and Texas Health Resources/Texas Christian University. ### What’s Next for Uncovr The company has already expanded across Paris and New York. They’re accelerating deployment with leading health systems in the U.S. and Europe. Their pipeline includes 400 operating rooms and thousands of hours of surgery analyzed. Martin Mignot, Partner at Index Ventures, says: “Ines, Eric and Johann have done something rare: earned adoption inside one of healthcare’s hardest environments and moved incredibly fast once inside. By structuring what happens in the OR, Uncovr is building a highly valuable dataset for surgical AI.” ### Broader Trends in Healthcare AI Uncovr’s funding fits a larger pattern of European investment into healthcare AI tools targeting operational bottlenecks, clinical data capture, imaging, diagnostics, and hospital workflow automation. Similar companies include SamanTree Medical (raised $22 million for real-time surgical imaging), along with Delphyr, Recare, Tucuvi, and Flexzo AI. ### Key Takeaways - Uncovr raised $7 million in Seed funding - The AI converts surgical video into clinical records and coding - The company is active in the U.S. and Europe with 400 operating rooms in its pipeline - The team combines expertise from surgery, space tech, and AI - This is part of a broader push toward AI-driven healthcare efficiency If you’re in healthcare or health tech, Uncovr is one to watch. They’re not just building a tool; they’re helping surgeons focus on what they do best.