Glasgow-based logistics technology company Streamba has been acquired by US-based energy software provider Quorum Software as part of a push to introduce AI-powered orchestration across the energy supply chain.

The value of the deal has not been disclosed. Streamba founder and chief executive Steven Calder held an estimated controlling stake of 42% in the company, according to its most recent accounts filed at Companies House.

Founded in 2010, Streamba develops AI-powered logistics, supply chain and operational execution technology for the energy sector.

The company initially developed its software in the North Sea alongside investor Peterson, an Aberdeen logistics business owned by the Rotterdam-headquartered Royal Peterson Control Union Group.

The partnership supported the creation of Streamba’s Visibility, Orchestration and Response platform, known as VOR. The technology is designed to bring operational data, workflows and teams together in a central intelligence layer, helping energy companies identify and respond to supply chain disruption.

Houston-headquartered Quorum, which was founded in 1998, provides software covering areas including energy planning, production operations, measurement, accounting, hydrocarbon management and logistics.

The company was acquired by private equity firm Francisco Partners in a secondary buyout last year, in a transaction reportedly worth around $2.4 billion.

Quorum said the Streamba acquisition would allow it to connect planning, field execution, supply chain operations and back-office systems through a single AI-powered platform.

Paul Langenbahn, chief executive of Quorum Software, said the acquisition would support the energy industry’s move towards more autonomous software systems.

Langenbahn said: “Energy is entering the agentic era, and the companies that will lead it are those whose software doesn’t just report on operations – it runs them.

“Streamba is not an adjacency play. It is a direct extension of our core thesis: that the energy industry deserves an AI platform that connects every workflow from the reservoir to the back office.

“With Streamba inside Quorum, our customers gain an end-to-end platform that turns operational complexity into competitive advantage.”

Streamba’s technology will be combined with Quorum’s DaWinci logistics platform, which provides planning and execution capabilities covering personnel and cargo.

Quorum said the combined system would create a unified logistics experience spanning the planning and execution stages of energy operations.

The company claimed that embedding AI throughout the platform would help remove divisions between planning and execution, as well as between personnel and cargo management.

Quorum described the resulting system as the “next level of supply chain control tower and orchestration capability”, with Streamba’s operational intelligence working alongside DaWinci’s logistics planning and execution tools.

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Radhika Krishnan, chief product and technology officer at Quorum Software, said the businesses would work towards developing autonomous AI agents capable of acting on operational problems.

“Our goal is to bring real-time intelligence and agency to energy operations” she said. “Together with Streamba, we can accelerate the roadmap from operational execution to autonomous agents – AI that doesn’t just flag a disruption but resolves it, reassigns resources and updates the plan with appropriate human oversight.

“For our customers, logistics and supply chain operations become self-optimizing systems. That’s a fundamental change in how the energy industry operates.”