Renfe secured a €78 million contract, while Madrid-based Fractal raised $10 million led by Kayyak Ventures. Oakley Capital acquired a 70% stake in logistics software company Alerce, which has sales of around €12 million and EBITDA between €4 million and €5 million. Other funding news includes Shakers raising €6 million, Cocoon €2 million, and Kalma €1 million. Accenture acquired cybersecurity firm Innotec Security. Nauta led an €8.8 million Series A round in UK-based Spotted Zebra.

Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don't worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. Justin Kan’s Fractal is unveiling FStudio, a set of tools that make it easier for game studios to build, market and monetize Web3 games without blockchain expertise.Kan, the cofounder of Twitch who started Fractal in 2021 to build tools for blockchain games, believes that blockchain tech is the best way to get to a player-driven economy. But he said the problem is the gaming industry has become obsessed with talking about that backend technology – turning off players and distracting Web3 startups from the main mission: creating excellent gameplay experiences. To move forward, we need to refocus the conversation on the players, not the tech, Kan said in an interview with GamesBeat.“In the last eight months or so, we’ve been working on a bunch of features that help empower the next wave of developers for Web3 gaming,” Kan said. “We call it FStudio. We’re solving the problems that we learned from talking to developers