French surgical AI startup Uncovr raises €6 million to turn surgical video into clinical records

Uncovr, a Paris-based surgical AI company transforming how surgery is analysed, documented, coded and learned, has today announced €6 million ($7 million) in Seed funding.

The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Seedcamp, Frst, No Label Ventures, and Entrepreneurs First. It also includes Jean Nehme (founder of Digital Surgery, acquired by Medtronic), Othman Laraki (CEO of Color Health), and Charlie Songhurst (Meta board member).

“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. 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.”

Uncovr’s Seed round sits within a broader 2026 pattern of European investment into healthcare AI tools that target operational bottlenecks, clinical data capture, imaging, diagnostics and hospital workflow automation.

The closest sector match is SamanTree Medical’s €20 million financing for real-time surgical imaging, while Delphyr, Recare, Tucuvi and Flexzo AI show adjacent demand for AI systems that reduce administrative load, support care teams and improve healthcare operations.

“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,” adds Dr. Prakash Gatta, Medical Director of Complex Foregut Surgery at Texas Health Resources and VP of Clinical and Medical Affairs at Uncovr. “That has real implications, not just for reimbursement but also for compliance, coding, clinical security, and continuity. This isn’t a marginal issue, it’s a structural gap in how surgery is documented today.”

Founded in 2025 by Ines Iraki (CEO), Johann Diep (CTO), and Prof. Eric Vibert (Medical Co-Founder), Uncovr was shaped by firsthand experience across surgery, autonomous systems, and frontier AI.

While working on healthcare, Iraki spent time inside operating rooms and became interested 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 team includes engineers, surgeons, and medical coders from institutions including ETH Zurich, École Polytechnique, AP-HP, Mayo Clinic, HEC Paris, and Texas Health Resources/Texas Christian University.

The company has expanded across Paris and New York and is accelerating deployment with leading health systems in the U.S. and Europe, with a pipeline of 400 operating rooms and thousands of hours of surgery analysed.

Uncovr automatically generates operative reports and procedural coding directly from surgical video and intraoperative workflow data, helping hospitals improve documentation quality for patient care, reimbursement and coding accuracy, and surgical workflow visibility.

“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,” says Martin Mignot, Partner at Index Ventures.

According to the company, more than 400 million surgeries are performed globally each year, 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 has taken place.

That operative report becomes the legal and clinical record of the procedure, the basis for billing, compliance, and the reference for future patient care. As a result, critical details are frequently lost, and much of the data generated in the operating room remains unused.

Alongside the funding, Uncovr is releasing findings from an initial real-world analysis of its deployed cases: missed billable steps in 16% of procedures and a ~10% reimbursement gap – driven entirely by documentation gaps that human review had not caught.

A multi-institutional study of more than 1,000 surgical cases across 500 health systems found that most operative reports fail to report at least 70% of recommended clinical information – directly linked to higher rates of infection, readmission, and reoperation.

Uncovr aims to address this gap by analysing the only ground truth of procedures: the surgical or endoscopic video captured as procedures occur in real-time.

By grounding documentation in what actually happened during the procedure, the platform reportedly improves clinical accuracy, reimbursement integrity, compliance, and continuity of care – while creating a structured and searchable procedural record for hospitals to make precision surgery possible.

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