The quest for whistleblowers award intensifies LOL http://www.builtinchicago.org/2017/04/05/neurensic-ai-trading-investigation
Wonder how long ago this was written. Looks to me like their headcount is down to 14: http://neurensic.com/team/
Many startups try to look bigger than they are because potential clients fixate on that instead of results. The founder probably listed all their advisors and board members with employees to the reporter and they conflated that to "employees", an error the company isn't in a hurry to correct. Nice catch on the discrepancy on your part!