Modern operating rooms generate an enormous amount of valuable clinical information, yet much of that knowledge remains locked inside video recordings, surgical workflows, and the memories of medical professionals. Despite advances in robotic surgery and digital healthcare technologies, one critical process has changed little over the years: documenting what happened during an operation. Surgeons often spend valuable time creating reports after procedures, relying on recollection and manual note taking to produce records that are essential for patient care, compliance, reimbursement, and future treatment decisions. Surgical AI startup Uncovr aims to modernise this process, and the company has now secured fresh funding to accelerate its mission.
Uncovr has raised $7 million in seed funding in a round led by Index Ventures. Additional investors include Seedcamp, Frst, No Label Ventures, Entrepreneurs First, and a group of healthcare and technology leaders, including Digital Surgery founder Jean Nehme, Color Health CEO Othman Laraki, and Meta board member Charlie Songhurst.
The investment will support product development, hospital deployments, and continued advancement of the company’s artificial intelligence models.
Addressing a Longstanding Healthcare Challenge
Founded in 2025 by Ines Iraki, Johann Diep, and Professor Eric Vibert, Uncovr focuses on improving how surgical procedures are documented and analysed.
While video recording has become increasingly common in robotic and minimally invasive surgery, clinical documentation remains largely a manual process.
After an operation is completed, surgeons typically prepare operative reports that serve as the official medical and legal record of the procedure.
These reports are critical for patient management, hospital administration, regulatory compliance, reimbursement processes, and long term clinical decision making.
However, creating them manually can be time consuming and may introduce inconsistencies or omissions.
Turning Surgical Video Into Structured Documentation
Uncovr has developed a platform that analyses surgical and endoscopic video recordings alongside intraoperative workflow data.
Using artificial intelligence, the system processes information in real time and generates structured procedural records while the surgery is still fresh.
The platform automatically creates draft operative reports and procedural coding recommendations before surgeons leave the operating room.
All outputs remain subject to review and approval before final submission, ensuring clinicians maintain control over the documentation process.
By grounding reports in actual procedural data rather than memory alone, the company aims to improve accuracy and consistency across surgical records.
Enhancing Clinical and Operational Outcomes
According to Uncovr, more precise documentation can create benefits that extend well beyond record keeping.
Accurate reports help improve coding quality, support reimbursement integrity, and strengthen continuity of patient care.
The platform also creates searchable procedural records that can be used across multiple hospital functions.
These records support quality assurance initiatives, compliance reviews, operational analysis, and clinical research activities.
Early deployments have revealed documentation related reimbursement gaps that may otherwise have gone unnoticed, highlighting the financial impact that incomplete reporting can have on healthcare organisations.
As hospitals continue to face pressure to improve efficiency and optimise resources, better documentation is becoming increasingly valuable.
Building Structured Surgical Data
Beyond automating reports, Uncovr has a broader vision for the future of healthcare data.
The company aims to transform surgical procedures into structured and searchable clinical datasets that can power future innovations.
By converting unstructured surgical video and workflow information into usable data, healthcare providers may gain deeper insights into clinical performance, procedural outcomes, and operational efficiency.
These datasets could also contribute to future research initiatives and support the development of advanced AI driven surgical technologies.
The company believes this approach can help unlock the full value of information generated inside operating rooms.
Expanding Across Hospitals
Uncovr is already working with hospitals throughout the United States and Europe.
The company reports that its deployment pipeline includes more than 400 operating rooms, demonstrating strong interest from healthcare providers seeking to modernise surgical documentation processes.
Thousands of hours of surgical procedures have already been analysed through the platform.
With fresh funding secured, Uncovr plans to accelerate hospital deployments, enhance its AI capabilities, and continue developing technology that improves how surgical information is captured, documented, and utilised. As healthcare increasingly embraces digital transformation, the company is positioning itself at the intersection of artificial intelligence, clinical workflows, and surgical intelligence.
