Digital Café

Digital Café was a new media company founded in early 1991 by Dean Hyers and Mike Koenigs. It operated for 7 years independently in St. Paul before being acquired in October 1998 as a new Minneapolis-based division of Campbell Mithun Esty specializing in programming and design for special-market advertising similar to Black Widow Games. In 1995, Hyers and Koenigs formed a sister company to Digital Café called Digital Entertainment as a joint venture with Navarre Corporation. Digital Entertainment was then sold to Navarre Corporation in 1996. In 1999, Digital Café merged with four other similar firms to become Zentropy Partners. In 2008, Mike Koenigs bought the name and trademarks back and restarted Digital Cafe as a digital advertising agency, opening a small studio in San Diego. His company specializes in online video advertising and has high-definition cameras, green screen backgrounds, and various digital editing equipment at their disposal.