Abstract: Following the previous inclusion of the United States in the entity list, DJI, a leading Chinese drone company, has once again been suppressed by the United States.
After being previously included in the entity list by the United States, DJI, a leading Chinese drone company, has once again been suppressed by the United States.
On March 12, FIGMA, a U.S. design software company, banned the accounts of companies such as DJI that had been sanctioned by the United States. Figma said in an email to DJI that DJI was named on the sanctions list released by the United States, so under U.S. law, Figma can no longer provide DJI with access to its software, and DJI's Figma account has been frozen. Access to DJI is only likely to be restored if it is removed from the list of sanctioned parties.
This means that companies on the U.S. sanctions list will not be able to continue to use Figma software, and files in the cloud will not be able to download backups immediately, which will bring a major blow to the operation of domestic enterprises such as DJI.
Back in December 2020, DJI was added to the Entity List by the U.S. Department of Commerce. In the face of unreasonable U.S. sanctions, DJI responded at the time that DJI was disappointed with the DECISION of the U.S. Department of Commerce, but U.S. customers could continue to purchase and use DJI's products normally. In December 2021, the United States announced that it would blacklist eight Chinese companies, including DJI. With many Chinese companies, including DJI, using Figma software, the ban is seen as a new round of U.S. sanctions escalation against Chinese technology companies such as DJI.
At present, DJI has become a leading global brand in many fields such as unmanned aerial vehicles, handheld imaging systems, robot education, and intelligent driving. According to the 2021 Global Unicorn 500 report, DJI's overseas sales account for more than 80% of its total drone sales, consumer drones account for more than 70% of the global market, and DJI ranks 28th in the world with a valuation of $23.71 billion.
Founded in 2012, Figma is a web-based interface design collaboration tool that can keep projects in the cloud at all times, so that multiple users can comment or modify the design in real time. It has three notable features: real-time collaboration, vector mesh, and version history. Best of all, this tool is very handy and can handle more than 20 artboards simultaneously in one document.
The research report also said that Figma is a full platform software, as long as the user can open the web page, theoretically can use this tool, it does not need to occupy local memory to store files, and even share the design in the form of a link to everyone. As of the end of July 2021, Figma was valued at $10 billion through Series E financing.
In the face of the above emergencies, some domestic software design companies urgently voiced: they can help enterprises replace Figma.
On the evening of March 12, the Blue Lagoon Collaboration Platform said that Blue Lagoon's MasterGo has officially launched the Figma file import function and improved the support for editing after the import to help everyone survive this event.
According to Tianyan, Blue Lake belongs to Beijing Micro Zhiguang Information Technology Co., Ltd., which was established in 2019 with a registered capital of 10 million yuan. According to Blue Lagoon's data, the platform's customers include Huawei, Tencent, OPPO, Today's Toutiao, SF, Ideal Auto and many other well-known enterprises.
At the same time, JsDesign also issued an announcement that the "Figma suspends all company accounts on the US sanctions list" spread on the Internet on March 12, and the company has verified that it is true. The incident has affected some domestic Internet companies and designers, and has affected the security of their design assets, the company is deeply worried about this and decided to respond quickly. All enterprises and designers can not only import files through the instant design official website, but also can contact "instant design" for batch migration by adding the following enterprise WeChat, which will fully assist everyone in migrating and backing up Figma files and help everyone protect their design assets.
Instant design JsDesign belongs to Beijing Xueyun Ruichuang Technology Co., Ltd., Tianyancha shows that the company was established in 2016 with a registered capital of 212,500 yuan.
In addition, the Guosheng Securities Research Report also shows that the subsidiary of the A-share company Wondershare Technology has launched Pixso, a multi-person collaborative design tool based on cloud operations, which functions against figs of overseas unicorn Figma. According to the official micro-information of Wondershare Technology, Pixso was incubated and led by Wondershare Technology and operated by an independent company, Shenzhen Boss Yunchuang Technology Co., Ltd. According to Tianyan, Boss Yunchuang was established in October 2021 with a registered capital of 18 million yuan, and the proportion of benefit shares of Wondershare Technology in Boss Yunchuang was 23.16667%.
Editor: Xin ZhiXun - Lin Zi