How big is too big for a summer MBA internship?

I'm an MBA interning with a good VC with their early stage team over the spring. Goal after school is a growth stage investor (not early stage, not pre-IPO late stage, just squarely growth).

I'm trying to select companies I'd be interested in interning with over the summer. What stage is the right stage? Is Series C too late to have a meaningful impact over an internship?

The decision will ultimately come down to the work opportunity I am offered, obviously, but I am looking for help in using stage (or perhaps another metric, I'm open to suggestions) to put a ceiling on the size of companies I reach out to. I want to have a meaningful experience to give me some tiny degree of growth stage founder relatability and not just be another cube worker at a large company. 

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