Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments in the information technology companies. It prefers to make investments in the datacenter infrastructure, enterprise automation, digital media and consumer electronics, communications infrastructure, Internet and e-commerce, semiconductors, cleantech, and other services. The firm seeks to makes investments not exceeding $20 million. It primarily invests in the United States, Israel, and Asia. The firm was founded in 1971 as Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners. In October 2000, it changed its name to Lightspeed Venture Partners, after it was spun-off from Weiss, Peck & Greer L.L.C. Lightspeed Venture Partners is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Shanghai, China and Herzelia Pituach, Israel.