This paper demonstrates the positive effect of immigrant entrepreneurs on manufacturing exports over and above that of diasporas. Using small-scale regional administrative data, our instrumental variables estimates of export gravity models imply that ceteris paribus, i.e. holding constant the total number of immigrants, the expected pro-trade effect of a migrant becoming an entrepreneur amounts to an average increase of US\$ 5,946 in the export flows towards her country of origin. Besides these dyadic effects, immigrant entrepreneurs unlike non-entrepreneurial immigrants raise a region's overall competitiveness and export flows towards other destinations as well.