More startups are opting for “second” seed rounds

Article seems to have little relation to the title.

I can see the flip side to that argument when you're pitching which is that if you're profitable, then you're probably not investing aggressively enough in growth/bets. Consider public companies that pay dividends; that's basically excess operating profit that they couldn't think of a better way to use (capital investment, etc.).

literally just a filler piece surrounding a chart.

"money" - turns out it's not so bad; who knew?

The title is a bit misleading. The article discusses the notable increase of 2nd-stage seed rounds, as the bar for Series A funding is getting higher.

In some sense, reminds me a bit of academia, where in the past couple decades it has become common for aspiring faculty to complete a second post-doc position because of too many rising post-docs competing over too-few open faculty appointments.