Leasing Company -> PE / VC

I'm currently being considered for a credit analyst at an equipment leasing company. The company provides LOCs up to $10MM , to companies in all different industries. They're begun to focus on start-up companies and decent amount of the portfolio is biotech and data center and cloud computing companies. So my job would consist of underwriting these companies and their ability to service lease payments, with leases typically only lasting about 36 months at most.

A friend of a friend indicated that this might be a good stepping stone to one day working in VC or PE. Truth be told, I think that's a load of bs as I don't think the quality of the underwriting is on the level of analysis that a VC firm would do, but wanted to get the opinion of the forums. The interview process has indicated that the role entails a lot of interfacing with senior management of start-ups and obviously analyzing their financial statements, which is a great transferable skill and the work sounds interesting, but I'm not sure that so much as gets your foot in the door at a VC firm.

For perspective, my experience consists of 1.5years in DCM and 1.5 years in commercial credit ($5M AUM bank).

Interested to hear some takes.