Everyset Raises $9M to Eliminate Hollywood's Background Worker Payroll Headache

New funding fuels Everyset's expansion into Background Payroll, eliminating vendor handoffs while cutting costs and delays for productions

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Everyset, the entertainment industry's first fully vertically integrated solution for managing background performers, today announced a $9M raise of fresh capital and the launch of a new, integrated solution for fast and accurate payroll on set. Led by Crosslink Capital and Haven Ventures, the latest funding round has enabled the company to launch the next evolution of its payroll platform, Everyset's Background Payroll. The new solution delivers payroll precision on-demand - replacing vendor handoffs with a centralized, SAG-AFTRA approved platform that automatically calculates overtime, penalties, and premiums earned by actors on-set. With Background Payroll, Everyset continues to lead Hollywood's digital transformation, simplifying payroll from timecard to payment.

With over 160,000 union members, 3 million workdays a year, and thousands of working background actors subject to constantly evolving union rules, a single major studio film or TV show might issue 600 to 1,200 checks every week - translating to millions of dollars over the course of one production. While studio accountants were previously on the hook for tracking every last detail manually, Everyset streamlines the complexity by empowering them to centralize time tracking, timecard approvals, and payroll processing all in one place.

"The entertainment industry has always embraced innovation on screen, but the evolution has been slower behind the scenes, especially when it comes to production and payroll technology," said Ebrahim Bhaiji, co-founder and CEO of Everyset. "With our proven solutions, we're proud to offer a trusted partner to help some of the biggest studios in the world - including Netflix, CBS, Apple TV, Sony, and Amazon - usher in a new era of digitalization and cost efficiency for productions." 

With the launch of Everyset's Background Payroll, studios now have even greater visibility and control over their productions, eliminating errors and reducing administrative burden for even the most complex shows. With Everyset, accountants can review timecards, process payroll, and send invoices in one sitting with real-time calculations for any additional fees or added costs. Manual adjustments can be made directly in the platform to guarantee accuracy, while all timecard and payroll data exists in a single system for optimal speed, accountability, and reliability. Built-in compliance ensures state and federal taxes, union rules, and guild rules are applied automatically, backed by decades of entertainment payroll expertise.

"For decades, production payroll has been a patchwork of paper slips, disconnected systems, and endless manual corrections. The industry has lagged in digital transformation, not because the need wasn't there, but because the complexity felt insurmountable and nobody wanted to be the first to take a risk on new technology," said Rumala Sheikhani, Founder of Everyset. "Everyset's mission is to close that gap, bringing production payroll into the digital era with workflows that eliminate friction and ensure your most valuable resource, your people, are paid on time."

Everyset is modernizing background performer management to help productions stay compliant, cut costs, and keep their focus where it belongs: on telling great stories. Learn more at https://www.everyset.com/products/background-payroll.

About Everyset

Everyset is the film & TV industry's all-in-one background performer platform, offering a SAG-AFTRA-approved solution that delivers a single source of truth behind every set for managing short-term W2 workers. From timecards to paychecks, Everyset empowers studio executives, producers, and accountants to seamlessly manage the entire background payroll process, on-demand and error-free. Trusted by major studios and networks including Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Warner Bros, and more, Everyset saves hundreds of wasted hours while keeping costs low, so productions finish on time and on budget, without payroll surprises. By modernizing one of Hollywood's most complex workflows, Everyset is driving efficiency and compliance across the industry, and helping productions of every size keep their focus on storytelling instead of administration. Learn more at https://www.everyset.com/.

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