Solid Sport adds strategic investment from Telia

Solid Sport, a Stockholm, Sweden-based company providing a digital service for streaming sports events, announced getting into an investment agreement with Swedish telecom Telia.

The agreement involves a minority investment in the company, part of a larger deal including exclusive access to content in Solidsport, to be sold further to Telia TV customers in the Nordics and Baltics.

Solid Sport, operated by Solidtango AB, is led by founder Johan Lundqvist and provides a digital platform for video broadcasting a new type of local and user-generated sports content. The platform makes it possible for teams, leagues and clubs to broadcast and monetize their own sport events through the internet to customers.