Suppose you got $40-100k from one of the dozens of accelerators and the cost of running an online business shrinks every year. Is your next raise still counted

Suppose you got $40-100k from one of the dozens of accelerators and the cost of running an online business shrinks every year. Is your next raise still counted as seed or series A? Are successful kickstarter campaigns counted as seed deals? Should they? Maybe it's not that seed bubble is popping, but there so many new ways to run a startup that old metrics are no longer relevant.