Early Money: A San Francisco startup is now a double-dipper, raising $8.5M in its second seed round this year

The Thanksgiving slowdown continues for seed-stage startups seeking funding. Just two companies announced seed rounds over the last week. For one of them, the new investment was actually its second seed investment of the year. Simplified, which offers an advertising design service, raised $8.5 million in its latest round. That follows a $2.2 million seed round the San Francisco company announced in June. The startup's service allows people to design and publish ads and marketing messages. Teams…