U.S. Department of Agriculture (Rural Business-Cooperative Service)
rd.usda.gov Direct investor
USDA Rural Development provides loans, grants, and technical assistance to support rural communities, businesses, and infrastructure. It operates through agencies including the Rural Business-Cooperative Service, which focuses on business and cooperative development.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (Rural Business-Cooperative Service) is a public fund headquartered in Washington, United States. It invests directly in companies, in rural development, business, cooperative and energy.
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Public fund
- Stage
- Not stated
- Headquarters
- Washington, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- rural development, business, cooperative, energy, telecommunications, water, housing, community facilities
Team, as U.S. Department of Agriculture (Rural Business-Cooperative Service) publishes it
- Glen R. Smith Under Secretary
- Joe Gilson Deputy Under Secretary
- Robert Hosford Director of State Operations
- George Kelly Administrator for the Rural Housing Service
- Victoria Collin Acting Administrator for the Rural Business-Cooperative Service
- Karl Elmshaeuser Administrator for the Rural Utilities Service
- John Greene Chief Operating Officer
Names and roles exactly as listed on rd.usda.gov. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 12 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- America's Seed Fund (NSF SBIR/STTR) 2 shared companies: usa.gov, govdelivery.com
- Community Development Financial Institutions Fund 2 shared companies: usa.gov, govdelivery.com
- Export-Import Bank of the United States 2 shared companies: usa.gov, whitehouse.gov
- United States International Development Finance Corporation 2 shared companies: usa.gov, whitehouse.gov
- 28DIGITAL 1 shared company: flickr.com
- Agaciro Development Fund 1 shared company: flickr.com
- Future Ventures 1 shared company: flickr.com
- Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System 1 shared company: flickr.com
- The Hive 1 shared company: flickr.com
- Vodafone 1 shared company: flickr.com
and 2 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page U.S. Department of Agriculture (Rural Business-Cooperative Service) publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.rd.usda.gov/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, status
- https://www.rd.usda.gov/about-rd/leadershippeople
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Record 7018 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified not yet · confidence medium
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