After an operation, surgeons often spend time writing reports about what happened in the operating room. A startup founded by Moroccan entrepreneur Ines Iraki believes artificial intelligence can do much of that work instead. Uncovr, a health technology company based between New York and Paris, has raised $7m in seed funding to develop AI tools that turn surgical videos into medical reports.
The funding round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Seedcamp, Frst, No Label Ventures and Entrepreneurs First. Investors also included Jean Nehme, Othman Laraki, chief executive of Color Health, and Charlie Songhurst, a member of Meta’s board.
The company focuses on a part of healthcare that patients rarely see but hospitals depend on: surgical documentation.
Many surgeries and endoscopy procedures are recorded on video. Yet much of that footage is never used beyond the operation itself. Surgeons still often write reports manually, sometimes hours after a procedure has finished.
Uncovr’s AI analyses those videos and creates a full surgical report, along with suggestions for medical billing codes. Doctors still review and approve the report before it becomes part of a patient’s medical record.
The company says early deployments uncovered missing billable procedures in 16% of cases. It estimates that documentation gaps led to reimbursement differences of around 10%, even after human review.
Iraki argues that surgeons should not have to rely on memory to describe procedures that were already recorded on camera. Nor, she says, should they have to act as medical coders.
But the startup sees automated reporting as only the first step.
Its long-term goal is to build a large, structured database of surgical information that could help improve healthcare and medical research.
Founded in 2025, Uncovr is led by Iraki as chief executive, Johann Diep as chief technology officer and Professor Eric Vibert, head of surgery at AP-HP in Paris.
Diep previously worked on artificial intelligence projects for the defence sector and the European Space Agency. The wider team includes engineers, surgeons and medical coding specialists with backgrounds at institutions including ETH Zurich, École Polytechnique and the Mayo Clinic.
The funding adds Uncovr to a growing list of startups founded by Moroccan talent that are attracting international investors in cutting-edge technology.
The company’s focus sits at the intersection of AI, surgery and medical data, where better documentation could improve both patient care and hospital finances.
