With the recent cash infusion via its Series A venture capital financing round of $6 million, eXo - the provider of Java middleware for cloud services, which currently has a strong foothold in French-speaking markets– will speed up its US operations as well as enhance its sales and marketing efforts.

In its endeavors to fuel sales and marketing in North American markets, eXo will largely focus on building partnerships with OEMs, ISVs, SIs, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, which may be looking to improve their current offerings with eXo’s out-of-the-box services for Collaboration, Social Computing, and Content Management.

With the new funding in place, Benjamin Mestrallet, founder and CEO of eXo, said: “We now have the capital and collective business guidance of our new board to execute on this opportunity and take eXo to the next stage of growth.”

Moreover, in addition to having raised a new funding round, eXo has also created a new Board of Directors, which will be headed by the 25-year software industry professional Bob Bickel – who has wide experience in building money-making, high-growth enterprise software firms, like the HP-acquired Bluestone Software, and the Red Hat-acquired JBoss.

The other members joining the eXo board on the behalf of the new investors include – the Paris-based Auriga Partners’ associate Philippe Granger; and the France-based XAnge Capital’s associate Nicolas Rose.