Morgan Hitzig's path into venture capital traces back to 9/11, which pushed her from NYPD counterterrorism work to Navy intelligence and eventually into startups and investing, and she now frames her work at Overmatch Ventures as investing in the public interest, focusing on national security, public safety, and the single points of failure in supply chains and the industrial base—arguing that production itself is a form of deterrence and that rebuilding factories, materials, energy, and microelectronics matters as much as backing software. Drawing on her earlier roles leading growth at Peregrine Technologies and working in operations and partnerships at Dataminr, she pushes government-facing startups to pursue a pincer strategy that wins over both frontline operators and budget holders, while treating trust—not just financial performance—as the real risk in this space, pointing to companies like GenLogs, which she highlights for helping track freight and support law enforcement efforts against human and narcotics trafficking.