For this month’s Founders in Focus series, we spoke with Shashank Saxena, co-founder and CEO of VNDLY, an Okta Ventures portfolio company. Shashank shared what drives the mission at VNDLY and how they work with Okta. What is VNDLY and what is your mission? VNDLY is a modern, cloud-based vendor management system (VMS) that’s changing the way companies manage their extended workforces. My partner Narayan Surabhi and I founded the company after many long, frustrated discussions about the things we couldn't do with existing VMS technologies that are built on two-decades-old technologies. Our platform is easy to use and has pre-built native API integrations that work with other leading digital-cloud platforms, making it easy to implement. Users can update their configurations as business processes and workforce needs change. And we chose to build our own API integrations so we can truly support our clients’ technology ecosystems, removing the burden.