I found this blog today: Northeast Venture Capital Funding and M&A Activity. It’s updated frequently, and it reports the basic stats of funding, merger, and acquisition events. Most of the news comes from Massachusetts.

Y Combinator does a Boston round of funding every summer, and the first few startups from this year’s round have launched. Here are some ones I’ve already noticed:

• TicketStumbler - Aggregated search for the secondary ticket market. In other words, they aggregate the listings of second hand ticket brokers.
• ididwork - Performance tracking for the individual employee
• Popcuts - online music store with a twist, they pay you a cut if you discover bands early. TechCrunch explains.

I’ll update this blog as I discover more.