About Grizzly Systems.
Grizzly Systems is a Montana-built, remote-surveillance company. We design and manufacture GrizCam — off-grid sensing for remote landscapes — and the software that turns what it hears and sees into something researchers and land managers can act on. Here's who we are and how we got here.
Built by Montanans,
for the wild.
Fifth-generation Montana founders Cody Goldhahn and Jeff Reed began with one mission — protect their wild heritage. Our motto: don't create noise, make something that matters. At Grizzly Systems, we build for those who hear the bugle of an elk louder than the buzz of a boardroom. Prefer feral over fancy. Bring grit and a little wit. Make money, but never let money make our work. Stay curious, stay wild, stay human. Push boundaries.
- 2021Founded
- 2022First prototype
- 2023Conservation partnerships
- 2024First customers
- 2025Jeff's TED Talk
Field operators.
Cody Goldhahn
10+ years in embedded systems engineering, chief GrizCam architect, generational Montana roots.
Jeff Reed
10+ years in bioacoustics, PhD in computational linguistics, 30+ years in electronic manufacturing — Avnet, Microsoft, T-Mobile, Arrow.
Ben Goertzen
Emmy-winning filmmaker, 10+ years in visual data and field ops, deep conservation and tech networks.
Dan Cox
25+ years hardware manufacturing (Motorola), Six Sigma Black Belt, scale-to-millions expertise.
Kathryn Harrison
Proven 0-to-exit founder (Magpie → acquisition), ex-IBM Blockchain exec, $30M+ enterprise sales.
Warren McNeel
SVP IT at T-Mobile, 30-year telecom exec, led digital transformation for 130M+ customers.
Can AI help us
speak with wolves?
Co-founder Dr. Jeff Reed on what the wild has been saying all along — and what off-grid sensing finally lets us hear.