Mehul ‘Mickey’ Patel and Richard Muckle are sitting by the window in the Westbury Hotel looking down onto the flower sellers near Grafton Street in Dublin 2. It is October 20 and Patel, a partner in August Equity, and Muckle, a director, are in Dublin to attend their first in-person board meeting of Integrity360, Ireland’s largest cybersecurity firm. In the Covid-19 era, they told me they’d been forced to negotiate and close the acquisition of the firm entirely virtually with its founder Eoin Goulding and his team. Now, they are both looking forward to meeting Integrity360’s management team. While the…

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