The browser is founded by Dmitry Pushkarev, a Stanford Ph.D., ex-Amazon executive and an ADHDer. He founded Moleculo, a genome decoding tech, and ClusterK, a cloud computing optimizer, acquired by Illumina and Amazon. Combining his expertise in bioengineering with computer science he launched the Sidekick project for focused online work and opposed the consumerist model of modern browsers.  Sidekick is funded by Kleiner Perkins.