London-based “Surgical Intelligence” company XRlabs raises €7.48 million to bring AI into the operating room

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XRlabs, the London-based Surgical Intelligence company built by surgeons for surgeons, has raised €7.48 million ($8.4 million) in Seed funding.

Alongside the fundraise, XRlabs also announced that Omar Ishrak, who led Medtronic as Chairman and CEO from 2011 to 2020 and previously served as chairman of Intel’s board, has joined as Chair of its Board of Directors.

XRlabs says its platform has been deployed across more than 100 surgical cases on three continents. The round was led by Playground Global, the DeepTech-focused venture firm based in Palo Alto, with participation from London-based HealthTech investor Eka Ventures.

Ali Haddad in 2024, XRlabs is headquartered in London at the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering, with a second office in Palo Alto, California. The company develops modular, device-agnostic software that sits as an external AI layer across the surgical systems hospitals already own.

Its platform operates with computer vision and deep learning to transform live video from surgical scopes, navigation telemetry, and pre-operative CT and MRI imaging into a single real-time, anatomy-aware view of each procedure. The company offers two core products: XRlabs SIM and SurgicalOS.