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I'd say that if you want to do VC then start doing it now. It will give you a ton of connections and perspective. You can always do a tech company full time after graduation, but VC opportunities are few and far between. Once you are at the VC, ask the partners what they recommend as your path to end up in their shoes one day.
There are way more tech company jobs out there than VC jobs...I'd keep that in mind.
They may also send you to one of their portfolio companies for full time, which may lead to a clear path back to the fund - where you'd already know everyone.
I echo what TechBanking said, the opportunities to work at a VC are very rare and if you have an interest in VC, taking that opportunity is a great choice. You can always move to a start-up after doing VC, but it's much harder the other way around. $100 million might not sound like a lot when you consider PE fund sizes, but $100 million is a relatively good sized fund for an early-stage VC as it'll give them plenty of capital to make investments with. To give you some perspective, some of the best early stage VC's only raise $100 million funds (i.e. First Round Capital's previous funds: $150 million, $135 million, $125 million).
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