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Lifecake is a London-based startup which offers a photo-sharing app aimed at parents with young children. Founded in May 2011 by former Skype, Qualcomm, and Yahoo engineers, Lifecake offers a photo-sharing app for families, which allows parents to store, organise, share and “relive” key moments of their children’s lives.

On 24 April 2015, Canon Europe announced it had acquired the London-based family photo sharing startup Lifecake as the hardware maker aims to bolster the services side of its business.

Canon defined the acquisition marks a “major step” in the development of the company’s digital consumer services business and its ambition to “play a part in every image taken no matter what device is being used” — in other words, not just photos taken with Canon hardware e.g. on competing smartphone cameras.

It’s also talking up the purchase of Lifecake as a way of putting down roots in London’s ‘Tech City’ (also known as ‘Silicon Roundabout’) where the startup is currently based.

Features include the ability to create photo and video timelines and the option to create printable products.

The Lifecake App is currently available for both iOS and Android.