Uncovr, a surgical AI startup transforming how surgery is analyzed, documented, coded, and learned, has raised $7 million (€6 million) in Seed funding led by Index Ventures, with participation from Seedcamp, Frst, No Label Ventures, Sequoia Scout, and Entrepreneurs First.
The round was 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.
The startup 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.
With the new funding, Uncovr will accelerate deployment of its AI platform across hospitals in the US and Europe, helping surgical teams automate documentation, improve clinical accuracy, strengthen reimbursement integrity, and turn surgical video into a reliable source of clinical truth.
Uncovr has developed an AI platform that 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.
By grounding documentation in what actually happened during the procedure, the Uncovr 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.
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.
“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.”
Digital health companies have secured more than $180 billion in funding to date, according to our recent Funding Database.
More recently, Illuminant Surgical, a precision access and visualization company transforming how doctors see and navigate the human body, raised $8.4 million in a Seed funding round to accelerate the launch of its flagship Skylight platform.
In another deal, Hypervision Surgical, a medical technology startup developing AI-powered next-generation intelligent surgical imaging systems, raised £17 million in a Series A funding round.