I wouldn’t read too much into it unless you have a personal connection with a partner or whoever contacted you at the VC firm. A lot of the larger firms run in house recruiting teams to help their portfolio companies. So I’d just treat it like any other recruiter call unless I had evidence otherwise.

I haven’t been recruited that way but I have been contacted this way. I don’t have any experience with this process besides that.

Why wouldn’t you go through a VC firm? I think it seems fine, but then again I’ve never been through the entire process.

People like to network. Consider it a business card with words.